On 28 June 2010 10:35, Paul Ezvan <paul@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le dimanche 27 juin 2010 à 13:19 -0500, David C. Rankin a écrit : >> Guys, >> >> Just updated my laptop's spare drive and something in the last set up updates, >> which included the kernel, really affected the radeon driver badly. It's almost >> like I am back running in framebuffer mode. I'm not quite sure where to start >> troubleshooting as I am not familiar at all with the changes kms introduced into >> the radeon driver soup, but I suspect that may be where the problem lies. I have >> no xorg.conf, so if there are config issues, it's with the default config. >> > [...] >> >> [ 37.526] is imortant (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled >> [ 37.526] (II) RADEON(0): Acceleration disabled >> > > Last time I had this problem with a radeon card, it was because of a > missing firmware (R700rlc in my case). Maybe you should search in this > direction ? > The linux-firmware package now contains all the required firmware for drivers now, IIRC.