Corrupted or no display with KMS (Radeon HD3470)

[Jerome Glisse]

On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 17:11 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> FYI I filed this bug in Mandriva bugzilla. Are these symptoms known? Any
> additional info I should provide?
> 
> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=54708
> 
> Description of problem:
> I installed mesa 7.6, kernel-tmb-laptop-latest and x11-driver-video-ati from
> main/testing.
> According to instructions I added "options radeon modeset=1" to
> /etc/modprobe.conf.
> 
> After reboot, I either get a blank screen or a screen with colored stripes on
> it. The console reacts to blindly typed commands but otherwise the machine is
> unusable.
> 
> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> 6.12.99-0.1mdv2010.0
> 

What matter most with KMS is the kernel version, at this
time a lot of fixes have been added to 2.6.32 development
kernel, anythings newer than the lastest rc is likely broken
for r6xx hw.

Cheers,
Jerome