I've made bugs that request radeonfb be built in (bug 779110) and bugs
that request radeonfb NOT be built in (bug 596515) duplicates of this
one.  These are obviously opposing bugs, but this bug is about finding a
setup that everybody is happy with.

>From comments in bug 779110 it seems I have not made the intentions of
this bug report very clear.  As the title suggests the most imortant
request is to build back in the ATI and radeon framebuffers.  Building
back in these framebuffers fixes suspend, lack of tty terminals and
allows machines with rage 128 cards to actually use the r128 driver
(unlike other architectures, for powerpc it expects the framebuffer to
be there).

I've requested KMS to be on by default although the presence of radeonfb
will stop this from working (bug 596515).  It is very easy to turn off
radeonfb so I don't see this as a problem.  From kernels that have KMS
turned on by default (e.g. lucid) it seems this solves a race issue when
you do want to use it and this is why I have requested it.  It will not
have any effect in 12.04 until you turn off radeonfb.

Finally, the strange splash colours that I describe in the above
comments are similar to those described in bug 564471 and so I don't
want this bug to be distracted by them.

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