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  1. Bug #314897
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Comment 6 for bug 314897

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Christian Convey (christian-convey) wrote : Re: [Bug 314897] Re: White screen of death - no escape

Hi Bryce,

Thanks for the tip. Is "-radeonhd" a boot parameter that I can supply
to the Live CD's kernel command line?

- Christian

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Bryce Harrington
<email address hidden> wrote:
> The usual technique is to boot into recovery/failsafe mode, set up the
> network, install stuff, make xorg.conf edits, and then continue to the
> normal boot or run startx.
>
> However, you've got an r700 card, and the support for that is still
> quite new and fairly incomplete, so probably you should just wait on
> further testing until we have a new version of the driver with better
> support for your card. Meanwhile, you could try -radeonhd.
>
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> [HD 4850] White screen of death - no escape
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