For what it's worth, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.10, and I no longer see this problem (screen blank after loading radeonfb with a Radeon 9600 -- original report mentioned 9200 SE). I never ran 2.6.9, so I can't say whether the problem was there.
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