https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71067
--- Comment #10 from Alex Deucher agd5f@yahoo.com --- (In reply to comment #9)
Completely powering down and removing the battery between boots does not help. I also tried 3.12 without success.
What's bothering me is that booting and not using X works. Is there any way I could disable UVD support and just keep the nice KMS'ed VTs?
Remove the UVD firmware from your system and initrd or patch the driver to not enable UVD:
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_uvd.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_uvd.c index 373d088..7177dbc 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_uvd.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_uvd.c @@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ int radeon_uvd_init(struct radeon_device *rdev) const char *fw_name; int i, r;
+ return -EINVAL; + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&rdev->uvd.idle_work, radeon_uvd_idle_work_handler);
switch (rdev->family) {