Bug#588151: WORKROUND: Disable Kernel Mode Setting
Berni Elbourn
berni at elbournb.fsnet.co.uk
Thu Jul 8 09:02:46 PDT 2010
This must be done on both the boot command line and in the module
configuration.
/etc/default/grub:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"
/etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf
options radeon modeset=0
Seems Debian may not be alone:
http://www.google.co.uk/support/forum/p/earth/thread?tid=14d1cfa87364d0c4&hl=en&fid=14d1cfa87364d0c4000486929031f176&hltp=2
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