Comment 7 for bug 1058641

I don't have the exact same symptoms. It'll start X, but it looks all 16 bit. There is another solution: boot parameters "video=radeonfb:<xres>x<yres>[-<bpp>][@refresh]" where xres is xresolution, yres is yresolution (use whatever's native to your machine; you can look it up online), bpp is optional, and refresh is optional refresh rate in hertz. example: video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@60