Am Freitag, 3. Februar 2012 schrieb Dan: > Hi, Hi Dan!
> I bought a brand new computer with a Radeon HD 6500. I installed > debian stable and I have two problems: From what I remembered from Phoronix.com and elsewhere, Squeeze is to old for HD6xxx series. man radeon might give a hint as it usual contains a list of supported cards. > The first one is that I am not able to set the maximum resolution that > I have in my monitor which is 1920x1200. I can only set 1600x1200. What does xrandr display? The mode related stuff from /var/log/Xorg.0.log might also help. > The second problem is that sometimes I have a lag of 2second in the > mouse. > > I guess I have two options. I can install the proprietary drivers (I > want to avoid this option) or I install the new radeon drivers from > backports. Or upgrade to Wheezy ;). > The problem is that if I install the new driver from backports I have > to install the whole new xserver system from backports. Are you sure about that? Did you try? What does apt-cache show xserver- xorg-video-radeon give for the backported one? I ask cause 6.13.1 and 6.14.2 does not seem much of a difference regarding the version and it should be possible to mix versions to a certain degree. martin@merkaba:~> rmadison xserver-xorg-video-radeon | cut -c 1-69 xserver-xorg-video-radeon | 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4 | lenny xserver-xorg-video-radeon | 1:6.13.1-2+squeeze1 | squeeze xserver-xorg-video-radeon | 1:6.14.2-1~bpo60+1 | backports/squeeze xserver-xorg-video-radeon | 1:6.14.3-2 | wheezy xserver-xorg-video-radeon | 1:6.14.3-2 | sid xserver-xorg-video-radeon | 1:6.14.3-2+exp1 | experimental > Is that a good > idea? In my understanding it is better not install too many things > from backports to have a stable system. What do you think? Will I be > able to get security updates? I don´t think its a problem, but you only know for sure, when you try it. Although downgrades are not officially supported, I did those several times with X server packages and they generally worked well. I have a ThinkPad T42 where the Wheezy driver (not the most current one, but I think nonetheless a 6.14 one works well. But thats with a rather old card. I would have to look the exact version up as the T520 I am using now has Intel Sandybridge graphics. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
