[clug] Debain Squeeze + Raedon 6450

[Tomasz Ciolek]

Kevin

install the "firmware-linux-nonfree" package.

This will have the caicos formware in it.

Tomasz

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 06:11:07PM +1100, Duncan Roe wrote:
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> On my (Slackware) system, "man 4 radeon" lists "CAICOS Radeon HD 6450" as
> supported. I.e. radeon, not radeonhd. There are also microcode files
> CAICOS_mc.bin CAICOS_me.bin CAICOS_pfp.bin some or all of which you may need.
> 
> Cheers ... Duncan.
> 
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 03:32:51PM +1100, Kevin Murray wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My trusty old Ubuntu 10.04 production install finally died today (it's been
> > on it's last legs for a while), and i've resuscitated a squeeze (6.04)
> > partion i was playing around with a month or so ago. My current desktop has
> > a graphics card with the Radeon HD 6450 chip (ASUS, 1gb ddr3). I couldn't
> > get the free drivers working in squeeze over summer, and so install the
> > proprietary Catalyst drivers. This gave my the native 1920x1080 resolution,
> > but the speed was abysmal so i uninstalled and retried the free drivers, to
> > no avail.
> >
> > Does anyone know how to get the OS drivers working? The problem i'm facing
> > is this:
> > On boot, the ususal kernel/init output proceeds normally, but when it
> > reaches the stage where GDM would normally be shown, the screen turns blank
> > except for a flickering cursor marker in the far top left corner. If one
> > holds (not presses) ctrl-alt-F1, then the contents which would normally be
> > shown on tty1 (i.e. kernel/init output followed by login prompt at the
> > bottom of the screen) flickers up, as though one was rapidly switching from
> > the blank screen to tty1.
> >
> > To get to this stage, i followed http://wiki.debian.org/AtiHowTo pretty
> > much to the letter, after uninstalling the catalyst driver. I remember last
> > time i hit a dead end with regards to the kernel not supporting KMS if that
> > helps (firmware-linux and firmware-linux-nonfree are installed)
> >
> > I can attach x11 logs if you would like.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
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