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   title="REOPENED --- - Radeon HD 6450 (NI CAICOS) screen corruption on boot"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42373#c40">Comment # 40</a>
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   title="REOPENED --- - Radeon HD 6450 (NI CAICOS) screen corruption on boot"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42373">bug 42373</a>
              from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:kunal.gangakhedkar@gmail.com" title="Kunal <kunal.gangakhedkar@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Kunal</span></a>
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        <pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=42373#c37">comment #37</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=42373#c36">comment #36</a>)
> > (In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=42373#c35">comment #35</a>)
> > > Did you tested 3.7 kernel ? Bunch of patch went in some might help your case.
> > 
> > No, not yet.
> > Will build and test a 3.7-rc1 based kernel and report back.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kunal

> OK, didn't get time to try 3.7-rc1. So, instead, installed 3.7-rc5 based
> Ubuntu kernel from:
> <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/">http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/</a>

> (specifically, following files:
> <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/linux-headers">http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/linux-headers</a>-
> 3.7.0-030700rc5-generic_3.7.0-030700rc5.201211110835_amd64.deb

> <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/linux-headers">http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/linux-headers</a>-
> 3.7.0-030700rc5_3.7.0-030700rc5.201211110835_all.deb

> <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/linux-image-3">http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/linux-image-3</a>.
> 7.0-030700rc5-generic_3.7.0-030700rc5.201211110835_amd64.deb

> <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/linux-image">http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.7-rc5-raring/linux-image</a>-
> extra-3.7.0-030700rc5-generic_3.7.0-030700rc5.201211110835_amd64.deb
> )

> With this, situation is no better. In fact, with this kernel, I cannot even
> switch to a tty to restart X - which works happily on my current
> 3.2.0-32-generic
> (package: "linux-image-3.2.0-32-generic" version: "3.2.0-32.51").

> There is no significant message logged in the syslog with 3.7-rc5 which can
> point to a problem. Attaching the dmesg output and Xorg log anyways.

> Thanks,
> Kunal</span >

One more point to note:
Whenever I try to reboot from 3.7-rc5 into 3.2.0-32, switch-to-tty + restart-x
routine doesn't work even with the previously working setup. 
It exhibits the same issue as 3.7-rc5.

Any clue why so?
Something to do with VRAM registers?
Just guessing..

Thanks,
Kunal</pre>
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