Bug#607767: Blank screen on starting X with Dual 2 GHz G5 and X800XT; DRM module not loading for radeon driver

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Don, 2010-12-23 at 17:13 -0500, dpickett wrote: 
> In /etc/modprobe.d there is radeon-kms.conf. 
> 
> "more radeon-kms.conf" gives: options radeon modeset=0
> 
> I removed radeon-kms.conf from the /etc/modprobe.d directory and
> rebooted. Still got a blank screen, but the xorg.log attached no
> longer shows the GPU timing out.

[...]

> (II) RADEON(0): Port0:
>  Monitor   -- AUTO
>  Connector -- DVI-I
>  DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
>  TMDS Type -- Internal
>  DDC Type  -- 0x64
> (II) RADEON(0): Port1:
>  Monitor   -- AUTO
>  Connector -- DVI-I
>  DAC Type  -- Primary
>  TMDS Type -- External
>  DDC Type  -- 0x60
> (II) RADEON(0): Port2:
>  Monitor   -- AUTO
>  Connector -- STV
>  DAC Type  -- TVDAC/ExtDAC
>  TMDS Type -- None
>  DDC Type  -- 0x0
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DVI-1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DVI-1:ddc2" removed.
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DVI-1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DVI-1:ddc2" removed.
> (II) RADEON(0): I2C device "DVI-1:ddc2" registered at address 0xA0.

The log file seems to end abruptly. Is the X server process still alive
when you grab the log file? If not, is there anything interesting in its
stderr output (should be captured in the gdm / kdm log file)?


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