Had this problem on a nw8440 and 2.6.32-21-generic. As Wayne Stark wrote on 2010-04-13, disabling KMS solved this for me.
echo options radeon modeset=0 > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf I don't use an external display but at least this solved the issue on the laptop display. -- [RV530] video problem flicker unreadable ati radeon [Needs pll quirk] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/537640 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs