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[Paul van der Vlis]

Rafał Miłecki schreef:
> 2009/10/6 Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl>:
>> Rafał Miłecki schreef:
>>> 2009/10/6 Paul van der Vlis <paul at vandervlis.nl>:
>>>> Rafał Miłecki schreef:
>>>>> It's matter of modesetting, so it's DDX (xf86-video-ati) related.
>>>> I am using Xorg Xserver 1.4.2, and radeon 4.3 driver at the moment
>>>> (Debian Lenny).
>>> Huh, that's quite... antic. I found /something/ called xf86-4_3_0_1
>>> but it's from 2003! I have no idea what was state of open driver in
>>> that year.
>>>
>>> You may try luck, but I guess you will need to think about big update.
>> This driver knows my ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics, and that's not really
>> old.
> 
> Isn't it? OK, Debian packaging/versioning is mystery for me.

4.3 is the version number from the Xorg logfile:

(II) Module radeon: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
        compiled for 1.4.2, module version = 4.3.0
        Module class: X.Org Video Driver
        ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 2.0

>> The radeonhd driver in my distribution does not know the ATI Radeon HD
>> 3200.  Or will it work, and can I add the name somewhere?
>>
>> http://packages.debian.org/lenny/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd
> 
> It's 1.2.1 version which is old and may be problematic. If you want to
> try radeonhd you should install 1.2.5 or coming-soon 1.2.6.

I am not sure version 1.2.5 does support the HD 3200.
http://packages.debian.org/sid/xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.