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xserver-xorg-video-ati package

  1. Bug #273510
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 273510

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Jonathan Wheare (jonathan-wheare) wrote : Re: [RV610] black screen at logon screen on 1st boot after install

I had the same issue with a dell desktop machine containing an ATI rv610 graphics card. If found that I could get the xserver working by going to the console and editing the xorg.conf file to explicitly set the driver to "radeonhd" instead of the default "radeon". I do not know why the radeon driver is setting the screen into standby, the xorg logfile looks normal in both cases.

so short version, radeonhd works, radeon doesn't.