2013/4/18 Amankwah <amankw...@gmail.com>: > Hi all, > I have a video card HD7870, I tried install the AMD Catalyst driver > ~amd64 in portage, it works well under X. But when I press ctrl+alt+F1, the > screen is blank?? > Although I googled this problem I add nomodeset and radeon.modeset=0 > video=uvesa to the kernel cmdline in /boot/grub/menu.lst, it didn't work at > all. What can I do to solve this?
IIRC fglrx does not support KMS, hence no framebuffer. The radeon parameters are of no use in this case; in order for the proprietary driver to work properly, the open source module must be blacklisted. So instructing the radeon module makes little sense. Please correct me if I got any of these wrong; haven't used the binary blob for about 2 years myself, the memory is slowly fading.
