Bug#696571: [squeeze -> wheezy regression] llano: display switches into ~60% snow ~40% white and becomes unusable
* Ben Hutchings:
>> Symptoms are corrupted fonts (instead of characters, bounding boxes
>> are shown), missing characters, a general slowdown of some graphics
>> operations (there is a very noticeable delay when maximizing
>> Iceweasel), and, worst of all, relatively frequent complete lock-ups
>> during ordinary X usage.
>>
>> I cannot load the firmware because the X server hangs during startup,
>> displaying static snow/sitting ants.
>
> You can work around this by:
> 1. Booting in recovery mode
> 2. Creating the directory /lib/firmware/radeon (which is all the driver
> looks for)
Sorry, work around what? The disabling of KMS?
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