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Upgrading to a Radeon 7000: console blank.



Hi,

I've just upgraded my 164SX running stable/woody 
from a matrox millenium II graphics
card to a radeon 7000 pci.
In order to get it to work, I did the following things:

- upgrade from alphabios to srm (5.6-3) and reinstalling.
milo would hang with the radeon, with srm it boots.
X did not work at all using a 2.2.20 kernel.
- build a 2.4.18 kernel.
Now X works , sort of, it looks like I can only use
"VESA modes" and when I quit X , I do not get my console back.
My monitor will switch to powersave , indicating there is no 
signal at all.
- upgraded X from 4.1.0 to 4.2.1-3. 
I just used the xserver-xfree86.deb to upgrade, but other
packages from http://people.debian.org/~falk/xfree86-4.2.1-3_alpha/
give me dependency problem for xfree86-common , which
is not there. It did not change a lot w.r.t. the console , or X
video modes though.

Has anyone had similar experiences with the console ?
Any hints on trying to fix it ? 
 
Regards,
Jaap Hogenberg



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