[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#882934: Crash debugging

[Dima Kogan]

Joe <joe at jretrading.com> writes:

> OK, it does look like the graphics driver, then. I don't play games, so
> I've never worried about it, and it looks like I'm using the
> xserver-xorg-video-radeon driver. firmware-amd-graphics is installed.
>
> Should I try getting hold of the AMD binary driver? It's onboard
> graphics on a Gigabyte MB, about seven years old.

I found a machine with a radeon gpu. Like yours it's a desktop with an
onboard gpu, and it's about the same vintage even. I tried running with
the "ati" X driver and the "radeon" kernel driver, and things appear to
work ok; nothing crashes.

My GPU is

  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Park [Mobility Radeon HD 5430] [1002:68e1]

X happily loads the drivers, and things work for me, but our
configurations probably don't match up. What does your 'lspci -nn' say,
and do you have the "radeon" kernel module loaded, and what does
'glxinfo' say, and what does 'dpkg -l "xserver-xorg-video-*"' say and
can I get a copy of the /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

If you don't care anymore, and want me to go away, tell me that too :)