Bug#516210: xserver-xorg-video-radeonhd: black screen after Lenny install
On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 23:33 +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> 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?
No. Just that before removing the fglrx I saw errors apparently caused
by it. After I removed it, radeonhd ran as before (same warnings, no
errors, black screen).
> Or are you just saying that it doesn't crash anymore but still
> fails to drive the screen correctly you said earlier?
>
Yes.
The "radeon" driver, on the other hand, actually works.
> > 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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