Hi Michael, Note that the Radeon driver is not in the non-free section of the > Debian archive but there is almost no hardware on which it would work > without a non-free firmware blob and non-free BIOS blob.
For the non-free firmware blob, I know you mean linux-firmware-nonfree, but what do you mean by "non-free BIOS blob"? And sometimes the vesa driver works but the non-free Radeon driver > shows a black screen. Debian live supports hardcoding certain cards to certain drivers via putting files in /usr/share/live/config/xserver-xorg/ (which are used by the 1150-xserver-xorg script in live-config). The prop nvidia drivers come with lists of pci id's they support (which are used by 1150-xserver-xorg), but there us no such list for fglrx/radeon. Does anyone maintain a list of when to use vesa or radeon instead of fglrx for ATI cards? Thanks, Corey On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Michal Suchanek <[email protected]> wrote: > On 31 January 2014 06:44, Daniel Baumann > <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 01/31/2014 12:54 AM, Corey Velan wrote: > >> Is the rationale for using non-free video drivers to get better > >> performance (resolutions, etc)? Or are there some graphics cards where > >> the open source drivers simply won't work? > > > > both. > > > >> When open source drivers don't work, what are the symptoms? Would the > screen just remain black > >> or are there other symptoms? > > > > both; depending on the card/the driver, the vesa xorg failback works or > > does not work. > > > > or in other words: it depends and if you want a specific answer you'll > > need to give specific information (what system built/configured how, > > which hardware, etc.). > > And sometimes the vesa driver works but the non-free Radeon driver > shows a black screen. This is because the Radeon driver relies on BIOS > for everything and the BIOS part that is meant to be used by the > driver is obviously bogus on many boards, especially ones with early > Radeon IGP chipset. > > Note that the Radeon driver is not in the non-free section of the > Debian archive but there is almost no hardware on which it would work > without a non-free firmware blob and non-free BIOS blob. > > Thanks > > Michal > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/CAOMqctQ384azN9+So8GVeEbDNvScs5OFyGoPiocuG_wQ=j6...@mail.gmail.com > > -- [image: FixMeStick: Stick it to viruses!] Corey Velan Co-founder 514.220.8207 [email protected] www.FixMeStick.com <http://www.fixmestick.com/>
