On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 10:05:39 +0200, Salvo Isaja wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 > Version: 2.6.32-15 > > I had this problem on Squeeze after dist-upgrading with Synaptic 2010-06-13. > After a few seconds, the screen turns black with random horizontal gray > garbage, and the system hangs totally (keyboard leds included). After several > reboots, I've seen the last line on screen was related to drm. I've > experimented a little bit and found that passing "radeon.modeset=0" to the > kernel command line, the system works as before. > > My system is based on an AMD Sempron 3200+ with a Sapphire X1300 graphics > card. FWIW I use the radeonhd driver on Xorg. > You should use radeon instead. > I suspect linux-image is not the right package for this report, since it > entered testing on 2010-06-11 and it ran fine for the subsequent two days. > Unfortunately I'm not skilled enough to be able to find a suitable package in > those entered on 2010-06-13. Since then, the problem shows even if I boot the > previous linux-image-2.6.32-3-686, the "rescue (single user) mode" does not > help. > > Please let me know if I can help tracing this. Please try to get a kernel log (possibly using netconsole, see Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt in the kernel tree). Is firmware-linux installed on this system? Does adding radeon.agpmode=-1 on the kernel command line help? Cheers, Julien
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