radeonhd blank screens

[Alex Deucher]

On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 4:08 AM, Goran Gajic
<ggajic at afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs> wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Dec 2009, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
>
>> On 12/07/09 09:35, Goran Gajic wrote:
>>>
>>>  For some reason all reports regarding problems with ATI 48xx seems to be
>>>  ignored. I also have ATI, but 4870 chipset and the only solution I have
>>>  come up to was switching to xorg-server 1.4.2. Issue is not OS related
>>>  behaviour is same under Linux and FreeBSD.
>>>
>>>  gg.
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>>>
>>
>> latest git Xserver seems to be o.k. over here with
>> a macbook(x1600). I also am running the latest kernel from
>> git as well. In your case not sure what kernel your
>> running, but over here with the latest there's some new kms
>> stuff that seems to be added.(maybe this is the problem!);
>>
>> hope this helps.
>>
>> Justin P. Mattock
>>
>
> As I`m using FreeBSD and Linux Slackware - I have tried with vesa, radeon,
> radeonhd  - same results - black screen - although I'm able to switch
> from it with ctrl+alt+Fx. Card I'm using is Radeon 4870,
> with two DVI outputs (DVI and HDMI).

Did you file a bug?
https://bugs.freedesktop.org

Alex