Bug#696206: radeon brokenness observed with Toshiba/Radeon video
On 20/12/12 05:03, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Control: severity -1 normal
> Control: tag -1 pending
>
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Daniel Pocock <daniel@pocock.com.au> (18/12/2012):
>
>> Package: installation-reports
>> Severity: serious
>>
>
>> During Debian's first and subsequent boot, the console becomes corrupted
>>
>> The X display is just blank too
>>
>> Access to the box is possible using ssh
>>
>> Adding
>>
>> radeon.modeset=0
>>
>> to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub
>>
>> makes the system work normally.
>>
> that shouldn't happen anymore in the next release, thanks to the
> following linux kernel uploads: linux (3.2.35-1)
>
> * radeon: Disable KMS earlier if firmware is not installed (Closes: #607194)
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.
>
Later on, I added firmware-linux-all (to get the wifi firmware) and on
the next boot, X was failing again, this time it was a blank screen and
this was in the log:
drm wait for fifo failed status : 0xE57004E0 0x00110103
I was still able to access the box remotely using ssh
I removed all the firmware packages except the Intel wifi firmware, and
subsequently I could boot successfully
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