Micia on IRC states that he wasn't affected by this, so let me drop in my info, maybe it is just my card affected here.
xbox-360 modprobe.d # lspci | grep VGA 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cypress [Radeon HD 5800 Series] xbox-360 modprobe.d # cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.4.0-sabayon ro init=/linuxrc splash=silent,theme:sabayon video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3 vga=791 console=tty1 quiet dokeymap keymap=us domdadm root=UUID=73c78b4e-fa69-45db-abc1-2d595151f6b0 docrypt On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Joost Ruis <joost.r...@sabayonlinux.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > Latest Limbo bump set a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ called radeon.conf > The purpose of that file is to enable KMS for FOSS ati driver, however > when you do this when you use FGLRX and your card is =>5xxx and never > had problems with latest FGLRX driver and new Xorg, this workaround > actually corrupts users tty1. > > xbox-360 modprobe.d # equery belongs radeon.conf > * Searching for radeon.conf ... > x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati-6.14.4-r1 (/etc/modprobe.d/radeon.conf) > > > IMHO the xf86-video-ati driver should NOT install this file, all users > have this package so any modern system with a descent AMD video card > (>4xxx) is affected by this.
