Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-05-03 Thread lina
aticonfig --initial aticonfig: No supported adapters detected. sorry I just followed up this email but met above issue. On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Andrew Wood a@me.com wrote: Thanks. Presumably that aticonfig --initial command makes an alteration to the xorg.conf file to tell it to

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-05-02 Thread Andrew Wood
Thanks. Presumably that aticonfig --initial command makes an alteration to the xorg.conf file to tell it to use the new driver? On 30/04/11 19:25, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sb, 30 apr 11, 17:43:12, Andrew Wood wrote: OK Ive installed the firmware and its better but not perfect. Full screen

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-30 Thread Andrew Wood
OK Ive installed the firmware and its better but not perfect. Full screen video is still too choppy to watch. How do I install the closed source ATI driver? On 11/04/11 15:59, Paul van der Vlis wrote: The firmware for the radeon HD is in the package firmware-linux-nonfree. -- To

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 30 apr 11, 17:43:12, Andrew Wood wrote: OK Ive installed the firmware and its better but not perfect. Full screen video is still too choppy to watch. How do I install the closed source ATI driver? From memory this should do it (all commands need root privileges): apt-get install

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew Wood
Thats got it. root@andrew-debian-pc:/home/andrew# dmesg | grep firmware [ 15.017339] rt61pci :02:05.0: firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin [ 20.434307] platform r600_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/RV730_pfp.bin [ 20.442403] r600_cp: Failed to load firmware radeon/RV730_pfp.bin [

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-11 Thread Andrew Wood
On 26/03/11 08:52, Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you mean no output or no problems? You should see at least the messages stating the firmware has been loaded. Hint pass -i to grep ;) Regards, Andrei No output from the grep command: root@debian:/home/andrew# grep -i 'firmware' /var/log/syslog

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-04-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
Op 11-04-11 16:22, Andrew Wood schreef: On 26/03/11 08:52, Andrei Popescu wrote: Do you mean no output or no problems? You should see at least the messages stating the firmware has been loaded. Hint pass -i to grep ;) Regards, Andrei No output from the grep command:

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-03-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 25 mar 11, 17:20:58, Andrew Wood wrote: On 20 Mar 2011, at 14:09, Liam O'Toole wrote: If you grep /var/log/syslog for 'firmware' you should see what firmware is requested and what is missing, if any. Absolutely nothing. Do you mean no output or no problems? You should see at

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-03-25 Thread Andrew Wood
On 20 Mar 2011, at 14:09, Liam O'Toole wrote: If you grep /var/log/syslog for 'firmware' you should see what firmware is requested and what is missing, if any. Absolutely nothing. Would I be better switching to AMDs proprietory driver? Whats with having to edit the

ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew Wood
Why does Debian (Squeeze) not work well with ATI /AMD Radeon HD cards? I had to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf in order to prevent the fideo output being turned off during bootup but even then the graphics performance is unusable. Im not sure what driver is being used as I dont know

Re: ATI/AMD graphics cards

2011-03-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On 2011-03-20, Andrew Wood a@me.com wrote: Why does Debian (Squeeze) not work well with ATI /AMD Radeon HD cards? I had to edit the /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf in order to prevent the fideo output being turned off during bootup but even then the graphics performance is unusable.