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michaaa62:
For radeon module to work properly you need to remove/move any /etc/X11/xorg.conf orany file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ directory and restart X.

Being a Nvidia-'plagued' user, i was not aware that the Manual does sport such little information about ATI cards.  :oops:

mauser1891:
Hello Folks,


I have been watching for the kernels to provide better support for the Evergreen graphics chipset's.  Currently I am trying out Gnome3 with the Gallium driver which is working fine resolution-wise (1366x768).  
I usually use KDE4+, which is usually my desktop of preference.  Personally I do not think that Gnome3 should be released since the drivers should be completed to get the full Gnome3 experience.

Biggest kicker which nobody seems to post is the use of nomodeset at the initial boot process from the boot menu's.  Which I have been "enlightened" about.  Else the screen merely drops to a "black screen".

Just yesterday I migrated back to Debian GNU/Linux, since the kernel is now version 3+ which I have been waiting for since my rtl8192se is supported in via kernel, though I had to load firmware-realtek.

Being a apt-get user has left me "alone" and frowned  upon in the Debian Forum's, and I didn't like how things were "drifting" in aptosid.  I stopped using the distro.  I have been a Debian-based user since 2007.  sidux being one of them.

I will be "watching"...  lol  Eventually I will migrate to siduction as a possible final distro solution.

mauser1891:
Sorry, I am referring to the AMD APU's, specifically the Llano "Husky"/Sabine with the ATI HD6520G in my case (A6-3400M).  Not to exclude any other user that has a A series APU.  Though I wish I had a A8 based unit, but $449 USD at the time it was a fair price IMHO.  And some places asking $650 USD on the average.  I feel that I did fairly well,since I do only light gaming and I am not compiling kernels or using any dbase's.  It's perfect.

This posting is not to start a Intel vs AMD or a ATI vs nVidia discussion.  But merely to point out the fact that we (linux desktop users) are mostly neglected where GPU driver support is lacking.  I figured that most of them are written in C (I am ignorant in this area), and would be easily ported to whichever operating system might need them.  Server usage does not require a gui or should have on IMHO.

devil:

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Biggest kicker which nobody seems to post is the use of nomodeset at the initial boot process from the boot menu's. Which I have been "enlightened" about. Else the screen merely drops to a "black screen".

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Booting the live-iso, the failsave option will boot your radeon chipset just fine, as it adds the nomodeset tweak. If you install firmware-linux-nonfree before installing the distro, you are fine.

greetz
devil

dieres:
I had done so and was left with a terminal, no X, because it was generated a /etc/X11/xorg.conf for vesa. I only had to delete this file and everything was fine.

I think the installer should do this deleting at the end of Install.

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