Bug#479724: xserver-xorg-core: xserver fails to start with a conf that has been good for half a year

[Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>]

Petri Kaurinkoski wrote:
> Hi Brice,
>
> I am sorry to disturb you more, but I have to revert back from closing
> the issue completely. I just noticed the virtual screens 1-6 changed to
> be shaded (I can not come up with a better description) while the
> X-window behaves as previously. The interesting part here is that when
> the system boots, the text is clear white text on black background, but
> after Xserver is started, the virtual screens go shaded. The texts are
> printed as expected, but they are hardly readable: it is as if a filter
> or curtain was drawn on to of the screen.
>
> I attach the Xorg.0.log if that gives you any clue about what is going
> on.
>   

This problem is unrelated to the previous one, please open a new bug
about it.

You might to check that you don't have the radeonfb kernel module loaded
(check in lsmod). Send us the contents of /proc/fb so that we know for sure.

Brice