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Bug#695961: workaround



On Sat, 2012-12-22 at 22:31 +0100, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 15:50:05 +0100, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 
> > Damjan Zemljič <damjan.zemljic@gmail.com> (15/12/2012):
> > > Adding "nomodeset" to boot command line (within /etc/default/grub) solves
> > > the boot problem.
> > 
> > For the record: This shouldn't be needed anymore with new linux kernel
> > versions, which should be included into rc1.
> > 
> iirc xserver-xorg-video-radeon still installs a modprobe config to
> enable kms, so things would still break without fw?

The initial firmware check in the kernel driver overrides the module
parameter.

Ben.

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