Compiz fails to start after an upgrade (software rasterizer in use)

[Král Gergely]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 12:34 -0500, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> >
> > The last weekend I did my usual upgrade to my debian testing, and as a
> > result compiz never started up again.
> > I already asked for help on the debian list, but I believe that this is an
> > Xorg issue.
> >
> > After running the compiz-check script I got the output:
> >
> > There has been (at least) one error detected with your setup:
> > Error: Software Rasterizer in use

> What does 'dmesg | grep drm' show?
> 

---------------
[   26.401734] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   26.577007] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.30.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0
on minor 0
[   27.168573] [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map
[   27.169671] [drm] Loading R300 Microcode
[   27.180715] [drm:radeon_do_init_cp] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
---------------

Hmmmmm, your little question could have saved me a couple of
hours... :-)

Google tells me that in the new kernel the firmwares are moved into
separate packages. Installed firmware-linux and doing a reboot now....

Thanks a lot!!