Bug#683327: [wheezy] corrupted screen using KMS and Radeon 6320 and missing firmware

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 683327 src:linux 3.2.21-3
reassign 607194 src:linux linux-2.6/2.6.32-29
found 607194 linux-2.6/2.6.32-30 , linux-2.6/2.6.38-3 , linux-2.6/2.6.39-2 , linux-2.6/3.0.0-1 , linux-2.6/3.0.0-3 , linux-2.6/3.1.8-2
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Hi Tollef,

Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

> When booting my laptop with a Radeon HD 6320 VGA controller, the
> display is completely corrupted unless the non-free firmware is
> installed.  If I boot with radeon.modeset=0, it boots fine (but gives
> unaccellerated X).
>
> I would expect it to fail to modeset and leave the display in a usable
> state.

Thanks for reporting.

Merging with the other "radeon driver sometimes acts insane with
missing firmware" bugs for easy tracking, even though I expect they
will not all be solved at the same time.  I think there was work on
one bug in this class recently upstream, though I can't seem to find
it in Linus's "master" (so if a fix is available, it's presumably only
in linux-next).

Hope that helps,
Jonathan