Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen
Hi,
Last weekend I experienced the same problem as described by original
reporter while installing wheezy on an Asus K53E with an HD6320 (please note
that it is not the same card while probably similar enough according to what
I could read on the internet).
While during installation (squeeze base system, dist-upgraded to wheezy,
then xorg et al.) the kernel modules were configured so that the radeon
module be loaded (confirmed by lsmod).
All of the console/CLI only process went fine and, upon wheezy install, I
noticed the usual modeset display changing (thiner fonts, ...)
Yet, on first X run I got the wrong screen resolution (1024 instead of 1366)
as reported here and I noticed that some vesafb (IIRC) was used with a
message in xorg logs about failing to load radeon module (I don't have the
box at hand to check more precisely, have to wait for this week-end for this).
I then stopped X and forced the use of the radeon driver by editing
xorg.conf which lead me to the garbage screen on the next X run.
I then added the radeon.modeset=0 stanza to my grub configuration and this
seemed to make the trick.
Yet there are still some very annoying (and somehow scary) side effects :
- no more console switching
- no suspend to RAM mode : the screen fades progressively to white in a
somewhat scary manner, as if somebody was pushing on all of the screen
surface, inch by inch, until all of the display has turned to something
whitish (don't know how to describe that better),
- same fade to white on system shutdown before the system powers off,
- when closing session to get back to lightdm, the left and right halves of
the screen are swapped with a thin black vertical space in between them.
- sometimes, after going back to lightdm and then being re-logged, the
display is lightly flickering.
This is what lspci says about the card :
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
Wrestler [Radeon HD 6320]
And this is the contents of /lib/firmware/radeon as requested :
$ ls -l /lib/firmware/radeon/
total 576
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24096 juin 12 17:13 BARTS_mc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 BARTS_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 BARTS_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 BTC_rlc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24096 juin 12 17:13 CAICOS_mc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 CAICOS_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 CAICOS_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24148 juin 12 17:13 CAYMAN_mc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8704 juin 12 17:13 CAYMAN_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8704 juin 12 17:13 CAYMAN_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 juin 12 17:13 CAYMAN_rlc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 CEDAR_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 CEDAR_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 CEDAR_rlc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 CYPRESS_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 CYPRESS_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 CYPRESS_rlc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 JUNIPER_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 JUNIPER_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 JUNIPER_rlc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 PALM_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 PALM_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R100_cp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R200_cp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R300_cp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R420_cp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 R520_cp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 R600_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 R600_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 R600_rlc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 juin 12 17:13 R700_rlc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 REDWOOD_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 REDWOOD_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 REDWOOD_rlc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 RS600_cp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2048 juin 12 17:13 RS690_cp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RS780_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RS780_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV610_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV610_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV620_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV620_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV630_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV630_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV635_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV635_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21504 juin 12 17:13 RV670_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2304 juin 12 17:13 RV670_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5440 juin 12 17:13 RV710_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3392 juin 12 17:13 RV710_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5440 juin 12 17:13 RV730_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3392 juin 12 17:13 RV730_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5440 juin 12 17:13 RV770_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3392 juin 12 17:13 RV770_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 SUMO2_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 SUMO2_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 SUMO_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 SUMO_pfp.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3072 juin 12 17:13 SUMO_rlc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24096 juin 12 17:13 TURKS_mc.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5504 juin 12 17:13 TURKS_me.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4480 juin 12 17:13 TURKS_pfp.bin
As said above, I think I will have the box at hand this weekend to make some
more exploration (and I will probably give a try to fglrx since it is now in
wheezy).
I hope this helps,
phep
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