Bug#355811: same problem
I have what I think is the same problem.
The system in question is a single-core amd64 system based on the Via K8T800
chipset and an AMD FX-51 CPU. The video card, according to lspci, is an:
ATI Technologies Inc RV280 [Radeon 9200] (rev 01)
When the system starts, I end up with a blank screen and no response to
anything I try on the keyboard. I can log in over ssh, however. The X
server seems to be hung (killing it fails to help, need to reboot with gdm
disabled to get a text console login prompt). I discovered that if I remove
the radeon.ko driver from the kernel modules tree and reboot, all is well
(other than the obvious lack of DRI support). I don't recall exactly when
I first saw the problem, but it was with a 2.6.14 or later prebuilt k8 kernel
and my first use of the X.org server on this machine.
The problem reappeared after an update today, and the same workaround got me
running again. The versions of things I'm currently using include:
linux-image-2.6.16-1-amd64-k8 2.6.16-5
xserver-xorg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6
If there is any other information I can provide that would be useful, feel
free to ask. This hardware configuration used to work fine with the XFree86
server, I'd be pleased to help get it working completely with X.org too!
Bdale
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