Bug#943664: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Same behaviour on Thinkpad T41

[Petra R.-P.]

Am Do., 31. Okt. 2019, um 18:01 +0100 schrieb Michel Dänzer <michel at daenzer.net>:
> On 2019-10-30 2:15 p.m., Petra R.-P. wrote:

> This happens when HW acceleration is disabled. If you can't or don't
> want to enable HW acceleration,
 I can't because I don't know how to do this.
> I recommend using the Xorg modesetting
> driver for the time being, by either uninstalling
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon or explicitly setting the driver in
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf, see below. Without HW acceleration, the radeon
> driver doesn't really provide much if any benefit over modesetting.
> 
> 
> Section "Device"
> 
>         Identifier "whateveryoulike"
> 
>         Driver  "modesetting"
> 
> EndSection

 I tried both variants without success.

 Both resulted in something like

     Server terminated with error (1).
     xinit: giving up
     xinit: unable to connect to X server: Conncection refused
     xinit: server error


 Old xserver-xorg-video-radeon 19.0.1-1 still works fine  :-)


     Petra