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

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

merge 646306 658764
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Touko Korpela wrote:

> I managed to boot into system by giving boot parameter (forgot what exactly,
> found it from net) that disabled kms. After that I installed
> firmware-linux-nonfree and system works now fine. I'm using wheezy/sid
> userspace and kernel (now 3.2.10-1, 3.0.x worked too).

Thanks!  I see.

> Kernel should fall back to non-kms mode if firmware isn't installed
> (didn't test if current kernel works better with missing fw than 3.0).

Alex Deucher writes:

| R6xx, r7xx should work ok without the RLC ucode, you just won't get
| acceleration.  With chips that require the MC ucode, the driver will
| bail if the MC ucode is not available.
[...]
| Should work and well tested are different things.

If you get a chance to report this to bugs.freedesktop.org, product DRI,
component DRM/Radeon, that would be useful.  Please let us know the bug
number if doing so so we can track it.

Hope that helps,
Jonathan