Re: KMScon vs. AMD Radeon

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

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).