Bug#435280: #435280: black screen after X starts (Radeon Xpress 200M)

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Sat, Aug 11, 2007 at 12:05:06PM -0700, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> I realized that I had the experimental version of the X-server ATI
> video driver installed on this laptop, so I downgraded that package to
> the version in unstable, and the problem went away.  Thus, the bug is
> that kernel >=2.6.22 is incompatible with xserver-xorg-video-ati
> >=1:6.6.192-1.  For the record, I tried 1:6.6.193-1 as well; it has
> the same problem.  I don't know which of the kernel and the driver is
> actually at fault so am duplicating the bug rather than reassigning
> it.
> 
> To reiterate, the problem is that with the bad combination of kernel
> and X video driver, after X starts, I get a totally black screen and
> an unresponsive keyboard.  The computer is not altogether dead;
> pressing the power button makes it shut down in an orderly manner.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel/X.org versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz