Bug#516890: xserver-xorg-video-ati: Black screen, work-around is forcing "radeon" driver

[Brice Goglin]

Sylvain Beucler wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-ati
> Version: 1:6.9.0-1+lenny4
> Severity: normal
>
> On a Radeon HD 3430, the screen goes black went starting X.
> By specifying:
>
>   Section "Device"
>         Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
>         Driver "radeon"
>   EndSection
>
> the problem goes away.
> I guess it uses "radeonhd" by default.
>   

Why do you open a bug report against ati if you think radeonhd is used?
ati only contains radeon, radeonhd is a different package.

Please remove the above Driver "radeon" in the config and send the
corresponding log.
If the log confirms that radeonhd is loaded, please try the 1.2.4
package from
  http://people.debian.org/~bgoglin/rebuilds/radeonhd-1.2.4-Xserver1.4/

Brice