Bug#538868: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: black screen with the driver radeon on a card hd4570

[Michel Dänzer]

On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 19:31 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 18:10 +0100, Adrien wrote:
> > 
> > 1°/ remove the fglrx drivers with the
> > command /usr/share/ati/fglrx-uninstall.sh [...]
> 
> Looks like that wasn't thorough enough:
> 
> (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
> (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>         compiled for 7.4.0, module version = 1.0.0
> (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
> (II) Loading sub module "fglrxdrm"
> (II) LoadModule: "fglrxdrm"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fglrxdrm
> (II) UnloadModule: "fglrxdrm"
> (EE) Can't load FireGL DRM library (libfglrxdrm.so).
> (II) UnloadModule: "dri"
> (II) Unloading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions//libdri.so
> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (a required submodule could not be loaded, 0)
> 
> Apparently at least /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so was still
> from fglrx.
> 
> Anyway, the black screen might be unrelated to this but due to a failure
> to detect / drive the LVDS panel correctly. Maybe others can help with
> that.

... or, there might be something interesting in the gdm / kdm log file.


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