Bug#544754: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: DRI does't work: fail to load firmware RS690. And instability when install firmware-linux package.

[Brice Goglin]

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.

Brice