Bug#687461: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: HD 6310 video gives only colored snow/black screen

[Julien Cristau]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 13:15:45 -0400, Michael Evans wrote:

> Alex,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.  When I boot and append
> 
> radeon.modeset=0
> 
> I can get the display fixed, although Gnome 3 starts in failsafe
> (apparently classic) mode.  This I can live with.
> 
> $lsmod | grep firmware gives:
> 
> radeon                639188  0
> ttm                    48725  1 radeon
> drm_kms_helper         27227  1 radeon
> drm                   167670  3 drm_kms_helper,ttm,radeon
> power_supply           13475  1 radeon
> i2c_algo_bit           12841  1 radeon
> i2c_core               23876  5
> i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4,drm,drm_kms_helper,radeon
> 
> So I think the drivers were loaded as kernel modules.
> 
> Maybe this bug should be marked as 'solved' (if you consider it a
> bug at all)?
> 
The above doesn't really answer anything...  The firmware should live in
/lib/firmware/radeon/

Cheers,
Julien
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