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Re: Did any recent testing update break ATI fglrx drivers?



On 2010-06-17 18:34 +0200, Matteo Riva wrote:

> I have looked for info on this but haven't found any.  Since a couple of
> days I can't boot X anymore with my usual nvidia drivers setup.

In the subject line you talk about ATI fglrx.  So what graphics card do
you have?

> All I
> get is a blank screen with no way out, not even CTRL+ALT+Fn.  My system
> is testing, updated daily.
>
> Is there any known issue causing this?

There is a new kernel in squeeze that includes shiny KMS framebuffer
drivers for both Radeon and Nvidia cards.  These are incompatible with
the proprietary blobs from ATI and Nvidia.

Sven


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