Re: radeon/kms: black screen when loading radeon with modeset=1

On Tuesday 15 of November 2011 23:21:10 Alex Deucher wrote:

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Sergey V. sftp.mtuci@gmail.com wrote:

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Kernel from Linus tree, HEAD at 7f80850d3f9fd8fda23a317044aef3a6bafab06b

Loading radeon module with modeset=1 causes black screen.

Usually it happens at boot time, but if run kernel with radeon.modeset=0

then

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`rmmod radeon; modprobe radeon modeset=1` I can get dmesg over ssh (thanks

to

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glisse from #radeon for help).

Fixed with this patch: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2011-November/016498.html

Alex

Thank you! I tested the patch and it helped.