Comment 14 for bug 509273

With 'nomodeset' I still get the garbled screen (and indeed tiny pixels
whenever I type something) due an issue in Plymouth, but can fix it by
using alt-sysreq-k.

Without 'nomodeset' I'm getting all vertical lines and cannot use my
system. Can not get past that with alt-sysreq-k or ctrl-alt-backspace.
Every once in a while it actually boots ok without the 'nomodeset' and
then Plymouth works ok too, but at the moment I feel this is getting
less frequent.
Because I can't reproduce the behaviour without 'nomodeset' right or
wrong, I feel there is some issue to do with timing or a race condition
somewhere between the kernel and the radeon driver.
But I'm not a dev.

Updating Lucid twice a day. I'm not trying daily cd's unless I can't get
into my system even by booting into rescue mode.

cheers
Tom

Lollerke wrote:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532308
> "I installed almost all recent kernel packages in koji. 2.6.31.5-91.rc1 is the
> lastest stable X200M/KMS kernel. 2.6.31.5-96 is the first buggy kernel."
>
> Any decision about this serious regression/bug? Will UMS be used for
> X200M in Lucid?
>
> ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #532308
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=532308
>
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