On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:13 PM, Piotr Engelking <inkerma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: xserver-xorg-video-radeon > Version: 1:6.12.99+git20100201.a887818f-1 > Severity: important > > With upstream kernel 2.6.33-rc7, starting X while the KMS-enabled > 'radeon' kernel module is not loaded yet results in the kernel using > KMS and the X server using UMS. Pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 while in X results > in hangup: the monitor stops receiving video signal and the X server > stops reacting to keypresses. Killing the X server restores the console > to an usable state.
The problem is known, there's also a proposed patch floating around [1]; as a workaround you can add radeon to /etc/modules so that it's loaded at boot. Might be tagged as duplicate of #569098... Luca [1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.drivers.ati/12853 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
