Bug#651532: System crashes (kernel oops) when loading ATI firmware

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

El 2011-12-12 a las 12:45 -0600, Jonathan Nieder escribió:

> Camaleón wrote:
> 
> > The user tried the latest kernel (3.2-rc4) with the firmware blob 
> > package installed to enable 3D acceleration. Do you want he tries again 
> > this kernel with no firmware package at all?
> 
> Yes, that would help to figure out whether these new crashes are due
> to the radeon driver as before or some independent bug.
> 
> Even better would be to try booting without loading the radeon module,
> by putting
> 
> 	blacklist radeon
> 
> in a file /etc/modprobe.d/oa-blacklist-radeon.conf and booting in
> "recovery mode" so X does not get started.

Would appending "nomodeset" to the kernel's GRUB line (→ disabling KMS) 
do the same job or you need the module is expressly blacklisted?

-- 
Camaleón