<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - iMac11,1 (RV770/M98L [Mobility Radeon HD 4850]) needs nomodeset to boot" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98046#c11">Comment # 11</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - iMac11,1 (RV770/M98L [Mobility Radeon HD 4850]) needs nomodeset to boot" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98046">bug 98046</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:justin.thiessen@gmail.com" title="Justin Thiessen <justin.thiessen@gmail.com>"> Justin Thiessen</a> <pre>so with the reversions from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=98046#c4">comment 4</a> (some conflict resolution by hand necessary, but seemed straightforward), the radeon driver loads and the primary display gets initialized and seems to work. seems like either: * the screen dimming is broken resulting in a dark primary screen when that kicks in or * after suspend the secondary display becomes primary and the internal screen is dark. haven't yet dug into this. looks like i'm seeing occasional artifacts as well. This is with kubuntu 17.04, kernel: 4.10.0-32-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Definitely progress, considering</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>