Comment 53 for bug 471872

I can confirm that the custom kernel with radeon driver compiled in does work, but oddly enough performance seems to be less than with the driver compiled as a module and modesetting enabled (which breaks suspend). Regardless, the performance is still better than if I compile radeon as a module and disable modesetting (to make suspend-resume work), so for the moment I'll also continue with using custom kernels on this system. For the record I'm now running Debian Testing ("Squeeze") on it, and the kernel I used is based on 2.6.32-27. If I have some time over the holiday, I may play around with this some more and see what settings, kernel, etc. gives the best performance.