[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#796074: Bug#796074: fglrx-driver: vterms broken when fglrx in use

[Patrick Matthäi]

Am 19.08.2015 um 10:37 schrieb Richard Jasmin:
> Package: fglrx-driver
> Version: 1:15.7-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> reported once as linux-firmware-nonfree but its the fglrx package.When its not
> installed and open source driver is enabled, linux complains about linux-
> firmware-nonfree and kms not being available.

Maybe just my english crashed.. So you want to say:
- without fglrx everything works
- without fglrx you do NOT have got KMS availble?
- did you purged fglrx?

With fglrx installed (and not purged) KMS is not available, because of
/etc/modprobe.d/fglrx-blacklists-radeon.conf

> 
> If and when your system breaks, (lets say you fubared a /var/tmp or /tmp entry
> in /etc/fstab or the rootfs gets mounted ro instead or rw) you get the console
> in a working state.It only breaks terminal output when using X11 under init-
> level 5. Sadly, you cant switch to another init level once 5 has fired up.If
> you try, you just get a black screen.You have to be in the console to do this.
> 
> You get slammed into init level 5 once the "issue" gets resolved and must force
> a drop back into level 3 if you dont want X11 to fire.Something changed. This
> was not the usual case in the past.
> 

We do not have got anymore runlevels in testing/sid, where 15.7 is in,
but anyway: runlevel 5 is not a default init level from Debian, 3 it is
for multiuser with X11.
My intention: you have "customized" something, which breaks your system now.


> Using grub option "nomodeset" has no effect.
> If X11 bails on you, the only two options are "play whack a mole with the reset
> button" or hit CTRL-ALT-DELETE.Even then, there is delay on X11 exit.

With fglrx installed nomodeset is already the default value.

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