Hi,
it seems I have solved the following problem, or at least I have found
a workaround.
> I use Debian for a few years now (since Sarge was Testing), the
> Testing distribution, regularly dist-upgrading it. I have an ATI
> Radeon X1300 graphics card, hence "vesa" driver in Xorg ("ati" and
> "radeon" don't seem to work, will look into the proprietary ATI
> driver in the near future). FWIW, I have an AMD Sempron PC, 512 MiB
> RAM, 1152x864x24bpp screen mode.
>
> All worked just fine on this box until a kernel update in Testing
> after Etch, and it just works if I stuck with linux-image 2.6.18
> 486. With later kernels (was it since 2.6.22?) when X starts it
> shows a black screen, with a red pattern on top of the screen
> (depending on the screen resolution, other patterns at 1024x768 for
> example, seems garbage from console).
Putting vga=870 (1280x1024x32bpp) in the kernel command line for
2.6.25 lets Xorg run flawlessly with the radeonhd driver.
Thanks to anyone who helped.
Salvo
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