Bug#720329: xserver-xorg-video-radeon: Screen keeping black at start but for the cursor

[Michel Dänzer]

On Mit, 2014-02-26 at 23:10 +0100, Samuel Hym wrote:
> 
> When starting the kernel with radeon.modeset=1 video=radeonfb:off, I
> got a normal screen for login. But the interface stopped responding
> after a few seconds.
> The first time I didn't succeed in logging in, it crashed while I was
> typing my password.
> The second one, after a violent shutdown and booting again, I logged
> in but it crashed before launching an application.

Does adding radeon.agpmode=1 or radeon.agpmode=-1 to the kernel command
line avoid the crashes?


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