Bug#687461: Solved: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen (fwd)

[Michael Evans]

Dear Debian Community,

Alex Deucher and Debian community,

Sorry for the delayed response.  Installing firmware-linux-nonfree solved the 
problem - video on the AMD E-350/Radeon HD6310 works now.

Notwithstanding the conversation I started, I think you can mark this as 
'not-a-bug' for the problem I reported.  Thanks again for your help and 
support.  Looking forward to working with this distribution.

Sincerely,
Mike Evans

On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alex Deucher wrote:

> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:23:41 -0400
> From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
> To: Michael Evans <mnevans at geol.umd.edu>
> Subject: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only
>     colored snow/black screen
> 
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Michael Evans <mnevans at geol.umd.edu> wrote:
>> Alex,
>> 
>> Thanks again.  So nothing is solved, only disabled.  The output of lsmod was
>> for grepping the string "radeon".
>> 
>> Do you mean, I have to install the package firmware-linux-nonfree? Because
>> firmware-linux-free is part of the build.
> 
> yes.
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>> 
>> On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> 
>>> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:17:38 -0400
>>> From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher at gmail.com>
>>> To: Michael Evans <mnevans at geol.umd.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives
>>> only
>>>     colored snow/black screen
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Michael Evans <mnevans at geol.umd.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Alex,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for your reply.  When I boot and append
>>>> 
>>>> radeon.modeset=0
>>>> 
>>>> I can get the display fixed, although Gnome 3 starts in failsafe
>>>> (apparently
>>>> classic) mode.  This I can live with.
>>>> 
>>>> $lsmod | grep firmware gives:
>>>> 
>>>> radeon                639188  0
>>>> ttm                    48725  1 radeon
>>>> drm_kms_helper         27227  1 radeon
>>>> drm                   167670  3 drm_kms_helper,ttm,radeon
>>>> power_supply           13475  1 radeon
>>>> i2c_algo_bit           12841  1 radeon
>>>> i2c_core               23876  5
>>>> i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4,drm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
>>>> 
>>>> So I think the drivers were loaded as kernel modules.
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe this bug should be marked as 'solved' (if you consider it a bug at
>>>> all)?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> radeon.modeset=0 disables the driver.  If you want to use the driver
>>> and have acceleration, you'll need to install the firmware.
>>> 
>>> Alex
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Michael Evans                      ph:  301-405-8763
>> Department of Geology & ESSIC      fax: 301-405-3597
>> University of Maryland             email: mnevans at geol.umd.edu
>> Geology Bldg (#237), Rm. 1120      http://one.geol.umd.edu/www/
>> College Park, MD 20742             skype: skype.mnevans
>

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Michael Evans                      ph:  301-405-8763
Department of Geology & ESSIC      fax: 301-405-3597
University of Maryland             email: mnevans at geol.umd.edu
Geology Bldg (#237), Rm. 1120      http://one.geol.umd.edu/www/
College Park, MD 20742             skype: skype.mnevans