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

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Brice Goglin<Brice.Goglin at ens-lyon.org> 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