Package: firmware-linux-nonfree Version: 0.28+squeeze1 Severity: important I have an old computer with a Radeon 9200 (RV280) AGP card.
After installing Squeeze everything works fine. If I install firmware-linux- nonfree to get the firmware for my Radeon card, the screen (in X/Gnome) goes black for a second or two and then returns to normal. This happens mostly when the screen is updated, e g if I scroll a window, several times per minute if I actively use the computer. If I remove firmware-linux-nonfree the problem goes away, but GPU acceleration is disabled. I tried using a newer kernel (linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo.3-686-pae) and firmware- linux-nonfree (0.35~bpo60+1) from backports, no improvement. Since I do not need any other firmware from the nonfree package I can remove it as a workaround. Others might not have that option. lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P DRAM Controller/Host-Hub Interface (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P PCI to AGP Controller (rev 02) 00:06.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82865G/PE/P Processor to I/O Memory Interface (rev 02) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev c2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) IDE Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) SMBus Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01) 01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (Secondary) (rev 01) 02:05.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c940 10/100/1000Base-T [Marvell] (rev 12) dmesg | grep radeon: [ 6.826320] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 6.826406] radeon 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 [ 6.829897] [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting. [ 6.835387] radeon 0000:01:00.0: putting AGP V3 device into 8x mode [ 6.835405] [drm] radeon: VRAM 128M [ 6.835408] [drm] radeon: VRAM from 0x00000000 to 0x07FFFFFF [ 6.835411] [drm] radeon: GTT 64M [ 6.835413] [drm] radeon: GTT from 0xF8000000 to 0xFBFFFFFF [ 6.835458] [drm] radeon: irq initialized. [ 6.835992] [drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready [ 6.835996] [drm] radeon: 64M of GTT memory ready. [ 6.836308] [drm] radeon: cp idle (0x02000603) [ 6.837096] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R200_cp.bin [ 6.983934] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x00000000F8000000 [ 6.991159] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready. [ 7.361279] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device [ 7.380411] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0 -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=sv_SE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash firmware-linux-nonfree depends on no packages. firmware-linux-nonfree recommends no packages. Versions of packages firmware-linux-nonfree suggests: ii initramfs-tools 0.99~bpo60+1 tools for generating an initramfs ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-68 2.6.32-45 Linux 2.6.32 for modern PCs ii linux-image-3.2.0-0.bpo 3.2.23-1~bpo60+2 Linux 3.2 for modern PCs -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org