Bug#646306: radeon PALM: corrupted display in wheezy with Asus 1215b

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Touko Korpela wrote:

> Machine: Asus 1215B
[...]
> When booting installed system, screen is badly corrupted.
> Recovery mode from boot menu doesn't help.
> Strange thing is that this same machine works fine in squeeze install that
> has updated kernel and other debs from wheezy (kernels 2.6.39,3.0.0-3 and
> 3.0.0-5 work fine).
> Squeeze install was made first in Samsung laptop and copied to usb stick
> where it runs.

Strange.  Sorry for the slow reply.

[...]
> Here is pictures (hosted at photobucket) from this event:
>
> http://bit.ly/nPoa0Q

(purple noise in alternating violet and magenta horizontal ribbons, with
a lighter square ~5 ribbons tall near the center)

> http://bit.ly/roN6nZ

(a section of black, above some white, some snow, some white, some snow
filling most of the screen, then some alternating violet and magenta
horizontal ribbons, interrupted by a jagged black band)

> attached is dmesg from working install (#645997 lists some more hw info)
[...]
> [    8.089691] [drm] initializing kernel modesetting (PALM 0x1002:0x9802 0x1043:0x84A5).

Did you eventually end up with a successful install?  What kernel and
userspace are on this machine now?

If you still have a setup reproducing the bug:

 - Is firmware-linux-nonfree installed?
 - Please attach output from "reportbug --template xserver-xorg-video-radeon".

Thanks and hope that helps,
Jonathan