On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Brice Goglin<[email protected]> wrote: > Thomas Pierson wrote: >> Why the firmware-linux package is not include with the >> xserver-xorg-video-radeon package? >> > > The firmware is non-free, so it can't go in Debian main packages (where > the video-radeon package is). > Also the firmware originally comes from the kerneland not from the > radeon driver anyway (the kernel is loading the firmware when needed, > the user-space X driver doesn't know about it) . > >> Is this instability result of a actual development or a bad >> configuration/association between these 2 package? >> Is my configuration correct? >> > > You don't have any xorg.conf configuration file, so there's nothing > wrong with it :) > > There's no incompatibility between firmware-linux and the radeon driver. > But installing the former enables DRI in the latter. So you get more > chances of using some code that's not very stable yet. I don't know if > DRI for RS690 is supposed to be stable nowadays, I hope Alex will answer > this.
Yes DRI on rs690 is stable. Alex _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
