On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 March 2012 19:26, Aidan Gauland <[email protected]> wrote: >> That's with the kernel that doesn't work with the video. With the older >> kernel, the line "Kernel driver in use: radeon" is missing. So... the >> radeon driver is fubared? >> > > The question now is, is it a "built in" module, or a standalone > module, does it show up with 'lsmod' ? > > If it doesn't show up with lsmod, you'll have to recompile the kernel > without it ( or find an option that explicitly disables it ), and if > its a module, you'll have to blacklist it somehow via /etc/modprobe.d/ > > Its likely that you're using the free radeon drivers that ship with > the kernel, which for whatever reason are incompabile/broken with your > video card ( perhaps on the older kernel, they just don't think they > support your GPU and don't try, while on the recent kernel it falsely > thinks its supported, or something like that ). > > Once you've done this, you would be better off getting a more > "official" ati video driver and seeing if that works, seems likely the > cause.
Hold on a minute, according to Aidan it is NOT X that is causing the problem. The radeon driver is an X driver. The terminal and grub should work without radeon, so your analysis (IMHO) is way off. AMD's video department can't support open source for peanuts and going to their proprietary driver is a path covered in huge piles of elephant dung. If you want to use a proprietary driver video card for god's sake go to nVidia, at least theirs work. Having bought a laptop with an AMD card, that is not an option, but other distros may handle it better. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
