On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 19:23:50 +0100 (CET)
Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote:

> > > > When this machine boots up it switches successfully to radeondrm but
> > > > when X starts the display gets garbled [1].  Switching to the console
> > > > and back again fixes the issue [2] but now the console is blank with
> > > > the cursor blinking top left corner.  It still accepts input though,
> > > > and the X display is still fine.
> > > 
> > > Without at least your Xorg.0.log there is not much we can do for you.
> > 
> > Oops, sorry about that!
> > 
> > [    16.186] (==) Using config file: "/etc/xorg.conf"
> 
> So what's in your config file?  My bet is that you're forcing Xorg to
> use the vesa(4) driver there.  That doesn't quite work anymore now
> that we have KMS.  If this was the only reason you created an
> xorg.conf, delete it.  Otherwise remove that the lines that configure
> the vesa(4) driver.  The radeon(4) driver should work with your
> hardware now.

gah, yeah I created an xorg.conf ages ago, probably because of issues
with radeondrm and I completely forgot about it.

Removed xorg.conf and things are working just fine.  Suspend/resume
does not work, though, but that's another (actual) bug report I guess.

Thanks, and appologies for the retarded bug report.

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