On Mit, 2012-09-19 at 19:09 +0200, Patrice Pillot wrote: > > Last weekend I experienced the same problem as described by original > reporter while installing wheezy on an Asus K53E with an HD6320 (please note > that it is not the same card while probably similar enough according to what > I could read on the internet). > > While during installation (squeeze base system, dist-upgraded to wheezy, > then xorg et al.) the kernel modules were configured so that the radeon > module be loaded (confirmed by lsmod). > > All of the console/CLI only process went fine and, upon wheezy install, I > noticed the usual modeset display changing (thiner fonts, ...) > > Yet, on first X run I got the wrong screen resolution (1024 instead of 1366) > as reported here and I noticed that some vesafb (IIRC) was used with a > message in xorg logs about failing to load radeon module (I don't have the > box at hand to check more precisely, have to wait for this week-end for this). > > I then stopped X and forced the use of the radeon driver by editing > xorg.conf which lead me to the garbage screen on the next X run. > > I then added the radeon.modeset=0 stanza to my grub configuration and this > seemed to make the trick. > > Yet there are still some very annoying (and somehow scary) side effects :
Those are all due to your card not being fully supported without KMS (modeset=0). We need to focus on solving the issues with KMS. Please provide logs for the issues described above. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.amd.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-x-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1348133232.2931.37.camel@thor.local
