2010/12/16 Marcos Marado <mindboosterno...@gmail.com>: > Hi there, > > 2010/12/16 Michel Dänzer <daen...@debian.org>: >> On Mit, 2010-12-15 at 21:29 +0000, Marcos Marado wrote: >>> After installing on this machine squeeze from the debian-installer >>> beta 2, I noticed that the >>> screen sometimes flickers (opening a konsole an maximizing it will >>> result in a more frequent flickering). >>> >>> Searching about it, I was led to believe that this could be a kms >>> problem, so I deactivated it. >>> Now the flicker is gone, but the computer is awefully slow, and a top >>> shows Xorg eating 100% CPU. >> >> [...] >> >>> [ 17.750916] [drm:radeon_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware! >> >> [...] >> >>> Versions of packages xserver-xorg-video-radeon suggests: >>> pn firmware-linux <none> (no description available) >> >> Does installing this package and rebooting help for any of your >> problems? > > Thank you very much for your quick reply. I should have looked into the > logs... > Installed firmware-linux, and now the 100% CPU issue is gone. > Unfortunately, the flickering issue (more often on black screens) is still > present with kms, so for now I'm sticking with having it disabled. > > If you want to have doing some debugging/testing/whatever, feel free to ask... >
Try booting with radeon.new_pll=0 and/or radeon.disp_priority=2 on the kernel command line in grub. Alex > Best regards, > -- > Marcos Marado > > > > _______________________________________________ > xorg-driver-ati mailing list > xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org > http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati > _______________________________________________ xorg-driver-ati mailing list xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-driver-ati
