debian7系统默认安装后启动时出现如下信息:
[    6.607269] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
[    6.785512] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: agent aborted loading radeon/R520_cp.bin (not found?)
[    6.785688] [drm:r100_cp_init] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
[    6.785761] radeon 0000:01:00.0: failed initializing CP (-2).
[    6.785829] radeon 0000:01:00.0: Disabling GPU acceleration
[    6.785891] [drm] radeon: cp finalized
[    6.785920] radeon 0000:01:00.0: f7151000 unpin not necessary
[    6.786496] radeon 0000:01:00.0: f7151e00 unpin not necessary
[    6.786971] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[    6.786974] [drm] Connector 0:
[    6.786976] [drm]   VGA
[    6.786979] [drm]   DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
[    6.786982] [drm]   Encoders:
[    6.786984] [drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
[    6.786987] [drm] Connector 1:
[    6.786989] [drm]   LVDS
[    6.786992] [drm]   DDC: 0xc54 0xc54 0xc58 0xc58 0xc5c 0xc5c 0xc60 0xc60
[    6.786994] [drm]   Encoders:
[    6.786996] [drm]     LCD1: INTERNAL_LVTM1
[    6.786998] [drm] Connector 2:
[    6.787000] [drm]   S-video
[    6.787002] [drm]   Encoders:
[    6.787004] [drm]     TV1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
[    6.787006] [drm] Connector 3:
[    6.787008] [drm]   DVI-I
[    6.787010] [drm]   HPD1
[    6.787013] [drm]   DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58 0x7e5c 0x7e5c
[    6.787016] [drm]   Encoders:
[    6.787018] [drm]     DFP1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_TMDS1
[    6.787043] [drm] radeon: power management initialized
[    6.942496] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[    6.942535] snd_hda_intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    6.986976] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[    6.986980] cfg80211:     (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[    6.986985] cfg80211:     (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    6.986989] cfg80211:     (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    6.986993] cfg80211:     (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    6.986997] cfg80211:     (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    6.987000] cfg80211:     (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    7.161224] [drm] fb mappable at 0xC0040000
[    7.161227] [drm] vram apper at 0xC0000000
[    7.161230] [drm] size 4096000
[    7.161232] [drm] fb depth is 24
[    7.161234] [drm]    pitch is 5120
[    7.161355] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    7.342870] psmouse serio4: synaptics: Touchpad model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x81a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000/0x0
[    7.380775] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio4/input/input9
[    7.454668] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input10
[    7.592553] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
[    7.598246] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[    7.598248] drm: registered panic notifier
[    7.598257] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.16.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0
其中这几句意思是找不到radeon/R520_cp.bin,装载firmware失败、初始化失败、无法开启GPU加速功能
暂时没有查找到radeon/R520_cp.bin属于debian的哪个安装包,通过从AMD官方网站下载ati-driver for linux驱动安装后,问题依旧。

偶然间想起了平时折腾的gentoo系统和其他几个LINUX系统,发现居然gentoo系统的/lib/firmware目录下有这个radeon目录,也刚好有需要的文件:
ls /mnt/sda7f/lib/firmware/radeon/
R100_cp.bin  R600_pfp.bin   RV610_pfp.bin  RV635_pfp.bin  RV730_pfp.bin
R200_cp.bin  RS600_cp.bin   RV620_me.bin   RV670_me.bin   RV770_me.bin
R300_cp.bin  RS690_cp.bin   RV620_pfp.bin  RV670_pfp.bin  RV770_pfp.bin
R420_cp.bin  RS780_me.bin   RV630_me.bin   RV710_me.bin
R520_cp.bin  RS780_pfp.bin  RV630_pfp.bin  RV710_pfp.bin
R600_me.bin  RV610_me.bin   RV635_me.bin   RV730_me.bin
于是将gentoo系统下/lib/firmware/radeon目录拷贝到debian系统下/lib/firmware下,重新启动debian系统,恢复正常:
[    7.020324] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
[    7.145568] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input10
[    7.283375] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.
[    7.283739] radeon 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[    7.283754] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (RV515 0x1002:0x718A 0x1043:0x1449).
[    7.283786] [drm] register mmio base: 0xFEFF0000
[    7.283789] [drm] register mmio size: 65536
[    7.284112] ATOM BIOS: Asus
[    7.284134] [drm] Generation 2 PCI interface, using max accessible memory
[    7.284141] radeon 0000:01:00.0: VRAM: 256M 0x0000000000000000 - 0x000000000FFFFFFF (128M used)
[    7.284146] radeon 0000:01:00.0: GTT: 512M 0x0000000010000000 - 0x000000002FFFFFFF
[    7.284166] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
[    7.284169] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query.
[    7.284199] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[    7.285452] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=256M, BAR=256M
[    7.285456] [drm] RAM width 64bits DDR
[    7.285563] [TTM] Zone  kernel: Available graphics memory: 440778 kiB
[    7.285567] [TTM] Zone highmem: Available graphics memory: 1492270 kiB
[    7.285570] [TTM] Initializing pool allocator
[    7.285577] [TTM] Initializing DMA pool allocator
[    7.285611] [drm] radeon: 128M of VRAM memory ready
[    7.285614] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[    7.285641] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[    7.286459] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[    7.287541] [drm] radeon: 1 quad pipes, 1 z pipes initialized.
[    7.289215] [drm] PCIE GART of 512M enabled (table at 0x0000000000040000).
[    7.289239] radeon 0000:01:00.0: WB enabled
[    7.289244] [drm] fence driver on ring 0 use gpu addr 0x10000000 and cpu addr 0xffb59000
[    7.289321] [drm] Loading R500 Microcode
[    7.545978] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: agent loaded radeon/R520_cp.bin into memory
[    7.546318] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000010001000
[    7.546355] [drm] ring test succeeded in 8 usecs
[    7.546617] [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[    7.547297] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[    7.547302] [drm] Connector 0:
[    7.547305] [drm]   VGA
[    7.547310] [drm]   DDC: 0x7e40 0x7e40 0x7e44 0x7e44 0x7e48 0x7e48 0x7e4c 0x7e4c
[    7.547314] [drm]   Encoders:
[    7.547317] [drm]     CRT1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC1
[    7.547321] [drm] Connector 1:
[    7.547323] [drm]   LVDS
[    7.547328] [drm]   DDC: 0xc54 0xc54 0xc58 0xc58 0xc5c 0xc5c 0xc60 0xc60
[    7.547332] [drm]   Encoders:
[    7.547335] [drm]     LCD1: INTERNAL_LVTM1
[    7.547338] [drm] Connector 2:
[    7.547341] [drm]   S-video
[    7.547344] [drm]   Encoders:
[    7.547347] [drm]     TV1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_DAC2
[    7.547351] [drm] Connector 3:
[    7.547354] [drm]   DVI-I
[    7.547356] [drm]   HPD1
[    7.547361] [drm]   DDC: 0x7e50 0x7e50 0x7e54 0x7e54 0x7e58 0x7e58 0x7e5c 0x7e5c
[    7.547365] [drm]   Encoders:
[    7.547368] [drm]     DFP1: INTERNAL_KLDSCP_TMDS1
[    7.547401] [drm] radeon: power management initialized
[    7.651031] cfg80211: World regulatory domain updated:
[    7.651037] cfg80211:     (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
[    7.651044] cfg80211:     (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    7.651050] cfg80211:     (2457000 KHz - 2482000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    7.651057] cfg80211:     (2474000 KHz - 2494000 KHz @ 20000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    7.651063] cfg80211:     (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    7.651068] cfg80211:     (5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (300 mBi, 2000 mBm)
[    7.920936] [drm] fb mappable at 0xC00C0000
[    7.920941] [drm] vram apper at 0xC0000000
[    7.920945] [drm] size 4096000
[    7.920948] [drm] fb depth is 24
[    7.920951] [drm]    pitch is 5120
[    7.921107] fbcon: radeondrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    8.352727] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 160x50
[    8.358438] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[    8.358441] drm: registered panic notifier
[    8.358449] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.16.0 20080528 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0



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