Bug#556159: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Blank Screen when starting gdm(X) if "NoAccel" is set to "False"

[Brice Goglin]

José Luis Castellón Sosa wrote:
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon
> Version: 1:6.12.3-1
> Severity: important
>
> X displays a blank screen *always* it doesn't matter if it's returning from hibernation, cold booting or rebooting, it happens always.
> However, I am able to avoid it if I put "NoAccel" "True" in my xorg.conf that way, I'm able to boot but there's no 2d Accel which is just driving me nuts.
>
> There's another way to avoid this problem and to get 2d Accel, the method is:
> -Start in recovery mode
> -Login as root
> -Press SysRq+R+S+E
> -Let Debian continue booting
> That way I get 2dAccel and I'm able to boot without problems.
>
> This is similar to bug552324 but I'm already using kernel 2.6.30-2 which doesn't fix things
>
> I've got Arch Linux on my other partition, I don't get this problem there but i thing driver versions are different.
> Debian: xserver-xorg-video-radeon 6.12.3-1
> Arch Linux: xf86-video-ati 6.12.4-1
>   

Does Debian 6.12.4 radeon package help?

Brice