> However, now that the firmware loading problem is fixed, my screen still > goes > black on bootup. But now it's instantaneous instead of 60 seconds > delayed :( > > I'm back to functioning vesa mode if I boot with radeon.memset=0, but > that's > not really my goal...yet :p
Last time I reinstalled gentoo, I tried kms too (with my Radeon HD2600 card). And I had lots of problems with it - in combination with ati-drivers fglrx module (blank on boot, freeze while starting X, generell crashes and kernel panics, low performence...,...). So I finally decided not to use kms disable everything related to kms. Since then everything is running smoothly. Two weeks ago, I purchased an new video card (Radeon HD7770) and gave kms another shot. And again, everything went down the crapper. So disabled it. I can live without it for the time being. But still, I would be interested in the "why?".
