Bug#585911: display breaks on Lenovo W500 with KMS

Fri Oct 1 10:29:09 PDT 2010

On Fre, 2010-10-01 at 13:04 -0400, Brent S. Elmer Ph.D. wrote: 
> Okay, I installed linux-image-2.6.32-5-686-bigmen from squeeze version
> 2.6.32-23 and rebooted into it.  Here are my dmesg and Xorg.0.log from
> that.  It still has the line [KMS] drm report modesetting isn't
> supported.

[    1.182590] [drm] radeon defaulting to userspace modesetting.

Looks like radeon.modeset=1 needs to be specified explicitly.

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