Bug#516210: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: black screen after Lenny install
Ross Boylan wrote:
> FYI I had also installed fglrx-driver and related packages (no 3D
> stuff). These caused X to fail and print a backtrace. I removed them
> and the open source drivers seemed to get control back.
>
Are you saying that radeonhd 1.2.4 works fine now that fglrx has been
removed? Or are you just saying that it doesn't crash anymore but still
fails to drive the screen correctly you said earlier?
> It does! Thank you!
> (I added Driver "radeon" to xorg.conf.)
>
> How do radeonhd and radeon differ?
>
The name is different, radeon supports more old boards, people are
different but work a bit together... It's a useless mess from my point
of view nowadays, you don't want to know...
Brice
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