On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:32:56PM +0000, Deucher, Alexander wrote:
Turning off modesetting basically disables the driver.
Well, in my case, I was using the radeon.modeset=0 variant to rule out issues in x.org. And in my case x.org did start still, albeit with a jacked-up resolution.
But in Laszlo's case, x.org gets "puzzled" too.