https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54129
Simon Kitching skitching@apache.org changed:
What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- See Also| |https://bugs.freedesktop.or | |g/show_bug.cgi?id=54662
--- Comment #9 from Simon Kitching skitching@apache.org 2012-09-08 06:48:22 UTC --- Sorry, have to take back that comment about 3.6-rc4+ working; I'm now getting the "black screen" problem consistently. I was definitely running the right kernel ("uname -a" was reporting 3.6-rc4+) and can only think that I accidentally fat-fingered the keyboard and selected the grub "recovery" option (ie with "nomodeset").
In short: 3.6-rc4+ just boots to a totally black screen for me, due to something merged in the 3.6-rc series. I've bisected this, and raised a separate bug (54662) for it. Interestingly, that commit is *also* about "radeon fence" handling.
I presume that this bug (54129) is still also present and lurking underneath the black screen - but obviously I can't test that.