> After a fresh debian installation on my laptop, all the screen goes black and > grey after a restart, because the radeon-firmware is missing. This also > happens in recovery mode. > I had to manually fix this by copiing the firmware files after starting from > a debian CD ROM. I first tried to fix it with different kernel boot > parameters, but they all did not help. > The problem does not occure when installing debian squeeze, neither when > doing an upgrade from squeeze to wheezy. > This propably concerns other Laptops/Computers with ATI grapic cards. Maybe > it is related to GNOME 3 which needs 3D support? (just a guess) > At least, a hint in the installer would be nice so that a user knows he has > to use unfree firmware or else he will be unable to use the system. > Thanks!
As a simpler workaround you could try passing radeon.modeset=0 to grub's boot options. Once booted you could then install the firmware to resolve it. Still this is an annoying problem if you are just trying to run up a new system. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
