On 3 March 2012 19:26, Aidan Gauland <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's with the kernel that doesn't work with the video.  With the older
> kernel, the line "Kernel driver in use: radeon" is missing.  So... the
> radeon driver is fubared?
>

The question now is, is it a "built in" module, or a standalone
module, does it show up with 'lsmod' ?

If it doesn't show up with lsmod, you'll have to recompile the kernel
without it ( or find an option that explicitly disables it ), and if
its a module, you'll have to blacklist it somehow via /etc/modprobe.d/

Its likely that you're using the free radeon drivers that ship with
the kernel, which for whatever reason are incompabile/broken with your
video card ( perhaps on the older kernel, they just don't think they
support your GPU and don't try, while on the recent kernel it falsely
thinks its supported, or something like that ).

Once you've done this, you would be better off getting a more
"official" ati video driver and seeing if that works, seems likely the
cause.


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Kent

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