Bug#587999: further info

Mon Jul 5 00:03:53 PDT 2010

On Sam, 2010-07-03 at 23:58 +0200, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: 
> 
> (EE) RADEON(0): [dri] RADEONDRIGetVersion failed to open the DRM
> [dri] Disabling DRI.

It should work better with the DRI enabled. Do you have the
firmware-linux package installed? If so, please post the output of
running

sudo modprobe radeon

as well as the messages appearing in the dmesg output after it.

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