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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #727620
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 727620

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Dweia (dweia) wrote : Re: [Radeon HD 5650 and 5470] Driver crash during recovery boot and in normal boot (Regression from 2.6.38-3 to -4)

Chris Halse Rogers wrote in #22: "This does look a lot like some bad interaction between i915/radeon"

I agree - I did some more testing and placed an entry for the radeon-module into /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, and voilá - no crash! (after booting into X I can't get back to the text-console, but that's possibly another issue).

What proves the "bad interaction" even more is: when also placing "i915" into /etc/initramfs-tools/modules BEFORE "radeon", booting isn't possible at all any more, but when placing i915 AFTER radeon, booting is possible, but I got a black screen (as in totally black, that is: no backlight) until X starts up.

I'll try to get logs of four different initrd-configurations (though I doubt I'll be able to record the one where the crash occurs already during running of initrd...)

P.S. off-topic, I knew a cjwatson once - hi Kamion ;-)