Bug#683327: [wheezy] corrupted screen using KMS and Radeon 6550D and missing (non-free) firmware

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Ivan Shmakov wrote:

>	As of 3.2.35-2, the issue seems to be no more (at least on one
>	of my hosts.)  The KMS is not enabled when there's no firmware,
>	and then correctly enabled should firmware be installed and the
>	‘radeon’ module reloaded, like:
>
> [   10.931935] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting disabled; it requires firmware-linux-nonfree.
> [   10.934973] [drm] Initialized radeon 1.33.0 20080528 for 0000:00:01.0 on minor 0
>
> # rmmod radeon 
> # insmod /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-amd64/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon.ko \
>       modeset=1 
> # 
>
> [  654.039721] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.

Nice to hear it's working ok so far. :)  Thanks for checking.