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germandev

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Registered: 2009-11-15

Posts: 14

KMS for Radeon HD 3200

Hi!

I am using Arch on my laptop that contains a Radeon HD 3200. Since KMS should be available on >= 2.6.32 and that kernel has already been released oficially it would be interesting to know when there will be a package to upgrade to that kernel (I am currently using 2.6.31) and when the ati or radeonhd driver will get (a kind of) stable.

I am currently using the experimental git builds from AUR but the drivers doesn't work properly.

Do you know if maybe there already is a reasonable solution?

Thank you in advance!

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: KMS for Radeon HD 3200

2.6.32 is in the testing repo now.

Even if you're not a testing user, you can still check archlinux.org for testing updates.

germandev

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Registered: 2009-11-15

Posts: 14

Re: KMS for Radeon HD 3200

thank you for your quick answer!

how do I install these "testing" packages?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: KMS for Radeon HD 3200

Enable the testing repo in your pacman.conf.

More info.

germandev

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Registered: 2009-11-15

Posts: 14

Re: KMS for Radeon HD 3200

I tried to include the testing repo and got few updates but neither the kernel nor the graphic drivers are updated.

Maybe adding "testing" and "community-testing" and running "pacman -Syu" afterwards isn't enough to do?

jordi

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Registered: 2006-12-16

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Re: KMS for Radeon HD 3200

maybe your mirrors are outdated.

adding testing repo should be enough (community-testing isn't needed for kernel 2.6.32)

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R00KIE

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Registered: 2008-09-14

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Re: KMS for Radeon HD 3200

You can always download kernel26, kernel26-firmware, kernel26-headers and any dependencies and install them with pacman -U

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