Bug#574169: suggestion

[Rodrigo Valiña Gutiérrez]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:51 PM, Andres Cimmarusti
<acimmarusti at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a similar card (also the xpress 200m), I will try to reproduce this
> bug. However, Rodrigo's Xorg0.log shows all these warnings and errors.
>
> (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled
>
> (II) RADEON(0): XAA Render acceleration unsupported on Radeon 9500/9700 and
> newer. Please use EXA instead.
> (II) RADEON(0): Render acceleration disabled
>
> [355167.718141] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
> [355167.818662] [drm:radeon_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
>
>
> Perhaps these need to be addressed to fix your other issue. Please install
> libdrm-radeon1, firmaware-linux, firmware-linux-nonfree. Also use EXA in
> your xorg.conf
>
> For example:
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>
> 	Identifier      "Default Layout"
> 	Screen          "Default Screen"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
> 	Identifier	"ATI Radeon Xpress 200M"
> 	Driver		"radeon"
>
> 	BusID		"PCI:1:5:0"
> 	Option		"AccelMethod"		"EXA"
> 	Option		"AccelDFS"		"1"
> 	Option		"EnablePageFlip"	"1"
> 	Option		"Monitor-LVDS"		"Internal Monitor"
>
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
> 	Identifier	"Internal Monitor"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
> 	Identifier	"Default Screen"
> 	Device		"ATI Radeon Xpress 200M"
>
> 	Monitor		"Internal Monitor"
> 	DefaultDepth	24
> 	SubSection "Display"
> 		Depth	24
> 		Virtual	2560 1824
> 	EndSubSection
> EndSection
>
> Please report back!
>
> Andres
>

Hi, I did the changes proposed, and now the laptop has microcode,
direct rendering and EXA acceleration.

Since then, the dim issue did not happen again.

But today I had a system freeze while the display was locked;
completely frozen; not responding to any key.

--
Rodrigo