Bug#702668: RV350 AQ: not possible to select screen left of other screen, only clone mode is possible

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

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Ben Hutchings wrote:

> In version 3.2.35-1 I changed radeon to disable KMS when firmware is not
> installed, because this generally doesn't work.  Previously the driver
> would try to continue and this would often cause memory corruption or a
> blank screen.
>
> However, for the older chips such as the R300 family radeon should be
> able to do KMS without any firmware (only 3D acceleration will be
> disabled, as before).  I changed the driver again in 3.2.39-1 to revert
> to the previous behaviour for these chips.

Merging optimistically with the other "please enable KMS without
firmware on R300-era cards" bug.  Thanks for a reminder.