Thanks to all the hard work by the fglrx packaging team, DRI, MESA, Xorg, Radeon,... etc people!
I've been using fglrx with my laptop since I've had it:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400And to the people behind the Debian packaging..
* xserver-xorg-video-radeon from testing.
* libdrm-intel1 and libdrm2 from unstable
* libgl1-mesa-dri and libgl1-mesa-glx from experimental
vader:~# apt-get --purge remove fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-src fglrx-kernel-2.6.26-1-686 fglrx-sourceReading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... DoneThe following packages will be REMOVED:
fglrx-driver* (9-2-2)
fglrx-kernel-2.6.26-1-686* (9-2-2+2.6.26-13)
fglrx-kernel-src* (9-2-2)
fglrx-source* (9-2-2)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 17 not upgraded.
After this operation, 38.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
I probably lost the ability to suspend and resume but I don't usually do it with that laptop.
Now let's hope my lapop at work will be adapted easily too :)
UPDATE: Seems you lose OpenGL 2.0 if you use the free driver. If you are doing OpenGL stuff like me then you are in trouble ;-|
Are we supposed to modify the xorg.conf? how?
thanks, d.
(I've the same card)
Yup
Just use radeon instead of fglrx.
Actually after postin g the comment I tried with a dpkg-reconfigure -plow and all went good.
thanks debian :-)
Glad it worked for you :)
Just note that OpenGL 2.x (Probably some older versions too) seems not to be supported. Some apps might not work :|
I'm still strugling with nvidia-glx-71
didn't work at all for me :(
i had to revert back to fglrx.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series