Bug#585909: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Garbage on screen during initial boot if KMS enabled

[Walter Landry <wlandry@caltech.edu>]

Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-06-14 at 13:08 -0700, Walter Landry wrote: 
>> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
>> Version: 1:6.13.0-2
>> Severity: important
>> 
>> I upgraded this driver, and now when X starts during bootup I just get random
>> garbage all over the screen.  If I switch to a virtual terminal, it is fine.  I
>> can then restart gdm, and the screen comes up mostly fine.  The one problem is
>> that my monitor connected via displayport does not work.  It is detected, but
>> for some reason it does not get any commands.  It is just black, and goes to
>> sleep.
>> 
>> If I disable kernel mode setting in /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf, then X
>> completely works again.
> 
> [...]
> 
>> Current Operating System: Linux dante 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Jan 10 22:40:40 UTC 2010 x86_64
> 
> Try a 2.6.32-4-amd64 or newer kernel.

Using 2.6.32-5 fixes all of the problems.  I actually had it
installed, but grub was not showing it.

Thanks,
Walter Landry
walter@geodynamics.org