[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.2-1

David C. Rankin drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com
Wed Oct 7 12:37:36 EDT 2009


On Wednesday 07 October 2009 11:24:03 am Paul Ezvan wrote:
> KMS crashes for me. I get a black screen and keyboard frozen if I start
> Xorg with this kernel.
> Disabled KMS in modprobe.conf solves the problem.
> I have posted the bug on kernel.org :
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14335
> 
> So I don't think that radeon KMS by default is safe.
> 
> Paul
> 

If any of the radeon code is being pulled from the radeonhd source (git 
repository) then it is NOT safe at present because a lot of laptops with the 
RS690M cards simply black screen when the radeonhd driver loads as well.

Just thought I would pass it along.

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