Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 06:07:48PM +0200, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 03:49:35PM +0200, Mathieu Othacehe wrote:
> > 
> > I did test the patch on my hardware (kmscon with forced fbdev backend):
> > 
> > * By default, kmscon is loaded, everything seems ok.
> > * Passing nomodeset to the kernel, kmscon hangs with a black screen, but
> > I'm able to switch to other mingetty terminals.
> > 
> > Not sure what is going wrong, but I fear it won't be much better on your
> > AMD GPUs :(
> > 
> > Mathieu
> > 
> 
> I got exactly the same result on my grandma’s 10-years-old laptop.  I
> just found out it is using an old AMD GPU too (AMD RS780M).
> 

The installer starts when specifying modprobe.blacklist=radeon on the
kernel commandline.