Bug#264450: Installation Report

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 04:15:02PM -0300, Joey Hess wrote:
> Michael Banck wrote:
> > German/Deutschland, TTBOMK.

I just tried a new install with the defaults (english/NA IIRC), and this
time, the screen gets corrupted in the middle of the boot process
already (no readable switch to a smaller font) and stays that way when
base-config is started.

> > Graphics Adapter is 
> > 0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon
> > Mobility M7 LW [Radeon Mobility 7500]
> > 
> > I think I forget to report that previously.
> 
> I have a similar radeon controller (Mobility 9000 M9) and recently
> hotplug has begun to load radeonfb, which in the 2.4 kernel puts my
> display in a very high res text mode too (but no screen corruption
> here). It's hard to tell without a screenshot, 

I don't have a digicam, so doing a screenshot of the Linux console would
be awkward. Basically, the characters seem to be roughly at the right 
position still, but the pixels get garbled so that everything is
completely unreadable.

> but maybe that's it. If so, you'd see the same problem rebooting the
> system after the install, and it would go away if you added radeonfb
> to /etc/hotplug/blacklist. If that's not it, I'd guess it might be due
> to termwrap loading a special console font for German.

Adding radeonfb to the blacklist indeed solved this.


Michael