Bug#686665: Random pixel on monitor
On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 16:45:15 +0200
Bernhard <bewoern1@yahoo.de> wrote:
> Your result on the monitor is like a television without a connected
> antenna, right?
-ish
http://i.imgur.com/K775m.jpg
The picture is static.
> I had the same problem on my Llano system.
> This problem was months ago, but if i remember right, the firmware for
> the Radeon is missing.
>
> Please install the debian package "firmware-linux-nonfree".
> You can find this package in the non-free section.
>
> I'm not an expert, but hopefully, it helps to solve your problem.
Well, I'm not so worried about myself. While I didn't know that installing firmware-linux-nonfree would solve the problem, I simply did boot with radeon.kms=0 and installed the other non-free solution (ie, AMD's proprietary driver).
The real problem is that the system is unusable by default, and requires more than good Googling skills to figure out how to fix. If this bug is not going to be fixed because fixing it requires installing firmware-linux-nonfree by default, then either the installer should warn that installing Debian on this system will result in a non-working installation or it should disable KMS by default so the system at least boots, even if rather handicapped.
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