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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW - Black screen with KMS on powerpc iBook"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90220">90220</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Black screen with KMS on powerpc iBook
          </td>
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>xorg
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PowerPC
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux (All)
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>major
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Driver/Radeon
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>xorg-driver-ati@lists.x.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>dand1972@yahoo.com
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>xorg-team@lists.x.org
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        <pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=115416" name="attach_115416" title="dmesg output">attachment 115416</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=115416&action=edit" title="dmesg output">[details]</a></span>
dmesg output

In Debian Jessie, I get a black screen booting with KMS enabled.  The backlight
remains lit, but the screen displays as black.  It happens on boot up about
when these lines appear:

[   16.797096] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[   18.117763] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled.

>From then on I can log in blind, and I'm running pbbuttonsd so the brightness
keys can dim or brighten the screen, but it always remains black.  Switching to
a console also gives me a black screen.

Adding the kernel parameters video=offb:off radeon.modeset=1 radeon.agpmode=-1
changed nothing.

This isn't a new problem, I've had it in previous Debian releases, but I hope
someone might take a crack at this.  Right now the only workaround is to
disable KMS and work with a very slow desktop (and no mplayer or vlc fullscreen
upscaling).

This is on an G3 iBook (M8603LL/A - PowerBook4,3 - A1007)

Thanks,

Dan</pre>
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