I have a ATI Radeon 9600 and it has problems. Debian disappointedly booted to a command prompt after installing it. Startx also failed to load the GUI. This news about making a kernel that supports 4k pages might be a solution. I don't have Debian anymore so I can't try it.
On Jun 9, 2016, at 4:39 PM, Steven Grunza wrote: > I suspect my problems are from the nouveau driver - wish I had a ATI Radeon > instead of the nVidia > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:51 PM, G 3 <[email protected]> wrote: > Here is the output of your command on my iMac G5: 0 radeondrmfb > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Elimar Riesebieter <[email protected]> wrote: > * Steven Grunza <[email protected]> [2016-06-09 09:45 -0400]: > > [...] > > so it's not using the vesa driver > > > > Must be using the intel driver (which makes sense since this is an i7 > > laptop). > > $ cat /proc/fb > > shows you the framebuffer driver in use which corresponds to the X > driver. > > Elimar > -- > Never make anything simple and efficient when a way > can be found to make it complex and wonderful ;-) > > >
