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Re: Power Mac G5 & Radeon X1900 - driver problem



On Fre, 2011-09-02 at 21:17 -0500, John Ames wrote: 
> 
> conflicting fb usage radeondrmfb vs OFfb ATY,Priona - removing generic
> driver
> 
> This causes the system to hang completely, such that it can't even
> boot into single-user mode...

Actually, as someone else pointed out, the message above is expected and
normal.

Does it hang indefinitely or continue booting after a minute or so? If
the former, you might be able to work around the hang by disabling KMS
with radeon.modeset=0.


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Earthling Michel Dänzer           |                   http://www.amd.com
Libre software enthusiast         |          Debian, X and DRI developer


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