Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-28 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:50:52 -0500, Carl wrote in message 2028075052.ga13...@panix.com: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:01:15AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and pick or verify you have picked all your relevant UTF-8 locales, you may want to toss out your

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-27 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 08:13:33 -0500, Carl wrote in message 2026131333.ga5...@panix.com: On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..are you using the radeon driver? Yes. (2 more alternatives to try, radeonhd and fglrx, I have no experience with those.)

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-27 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 02:01:15AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..run 'dpkg-reconfigure locales' and pick or verify you have picked all your relevant UTF-8 locales, you may want to toss out your ISO-8859-* locales. Next, run aptitude and trawl 'n haul in all UTF-8 fonts, and make those your

Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
So I wanted to activate video acceleration on my Gateway LT3119U netbook, which uses the Radeon X1270 chipset (RS690M). I installed the package firmware-linux-nonfree and restarted X. Before the upgrade, GNOME3 reported that it couldn't fully activate because of my system's limitations. Afterward

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-26 Thread CamaleĆ³n
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:37:34 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: So I wanted to activate video acceleration on my Gateway LT3119U netbook, which uses the Radeon X1270 chipset (RS690M). I installed the package firmware-linux-nonfree and restarted X. Before the upgrade, GNOME3 reported that it couldn't

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:37:34 -0500, Carl wrote in message 2026123734.ga7...@panix.com: So I wanted to activate video acceleration on my Gateway LT3119U netbook, which uses the Radeon X1270 chipset (RS690M). I installed the package firmware-linux-nonfree and restarted X. ..are you using

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 02:06:00PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..are you using the radeon driver? Yes. (2 more alternatives to try, radeonhd and fglrx, I have no experience with those.) Neither exists in wheezy, according to aptitude. The radeonhd homepage says that most distros are now

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On my mobo there's an integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics. The proprietary driver never worked on older Debian, Ubuntu and Suse, that's why I got a Nvidia card for this board. Mobo M2A-VM HDMI, Chipset Northbridge AMD 690G, Southbridge ATI SB600 The Radeon FLOSS driver was ok. - Ralf --

Re: Graphics corruption with Radeon X1270 (RS690M)

2011-11-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 06:16:54PM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On my mobo there's an integrated ATI Radeon X1250-based graphics. The proprietary driver never worked on older Debian, Ubuntu and Suse, that's why I got a Nvidia card for this board. Mobo M2A-VM HDMI, Chipset Northbridge AMD 690G,