Bug#575266: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Using KMS leads to blank screen once X starts
On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 10:54:11PM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> > >From some googling, it looks like this is probably due to using the
> > radeonhd driver for X, but this seems like an especially bad failure
> > mode.
>
> RadeonHD seems to have troubles talking to the kernel, and you report
> a bug against the Radeon driver?
Well, as a first pass it doesn't seem like a bad idea to file the bug
against the package whose upgrade caused the problem, please feel free
to reassign.
> > Identifier "Radeon HD4350"
> > # Driver "radeon"
> > Driver "radeonhd"
> Did you mean to report a bug against the -radeonhd package instead?
> Anyway, given -radeon is currently actively developed, you probably
> want to use radeon anyway.
Thanks, I think when I got this card radeon wouldn't do 2D accel but
radeonhd did, so I went with that one. radeon seems to be working
fine now so I'll switch to that. If XSF considers radeonhd deprecated
a note to that effect might be worthwhile, nothing in the apt
description nor on the radeonhd X.org wiki page implies that to
someone who doesn't follow the development.
After 15 years of slow X<->text mode switching, the fast KMS support
is pretty impressive!
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