On 20/12/12 05:03, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Control: severity -1 normal > Control: tag -1 pending > > Hi Daniel, > > Daniel Pocock <dan...@pocock.com.au> (18/12/2012): > >> Package: installation-reports >> Severity: serious >> > >> During Debian's first and subsequent boot, the console becomes corrupted >> >> The X display is just blank too >> >> Access to the box is possible using ssh >> >> Adding >> >> radeon.modeset=0 >> >> to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub >> >> makes the system work normally. >> > that shouldn't happen anymore in the next release, thanks to the > following linux kernel uploads: linux (3.2.35-1) > > * radeon: Disable KMS earlier if firmware is not installed (Closes: #607194) > > Mraw, > KiBi. > Later on, I added firmware-linux-all (to get the wifi firmware) and on the next boot, X was failing again, this time it was a blank screen and this was in the log:
drm wait for fifo failed status : 0xE57004E0 0x00110103 I was still able to access the box remotely using ssh I removed all the firmware packages except the Intel wifi firmware, and subsequently I could boot successfully -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org