Bug#516890: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Black screen, work-around is forcing "radeon" driver
On Tue, 2009-02-24 at 17:37 +0100, Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Sorry, I thought that 'ati' was responsible for chosing between radeon
> and radeonhd.
>
If both drivers are installed the choice is pretty much random at the
moment, which is a bad idea. :/
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 11:37:35AM +0100, Brice Goglin wrote:
> > Please remove the above Driver "radeon" in the config and send the
> > corresponding log.
>
> Attached.
> The 'RADEONHD' prefix is there.
> I also attached the 'radeon' log.
>
> > If the log confirms that radeonhd is loaded, please try the 1.2.4
> > package from
> > http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/radeonhd-1.2.4-Xserver1.4/
>
> This version works fine.
> (other log attached)
>
> This module recompilation is really handy :)
> I'd be interested in documentation to do the same!
>
>
> Now, where should this bug go?
>
> In a default Lenny install, Xorg uses 'radeonhd' while, given the
> state of the drivers in Lenny, it would better use 'radeon'.
> Maybe this can be a candidate fix for Debian 5.0.1.
>
I'm not sure. Maybe you can make a case about this to
debian-release@l.d.o and see what they think?
Cheers,
Julien
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