15-rc1: radeon modesetting fails

[Kertesz Laszlo]

Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 10:32:56PM +0000, Deucher, Alexander wrote:
>> Turning off modesetting basically disables the driver.
>
> Well, in my case, I was using the radeon.modeset=0 variant to rule out
> issues in x.org. And in my case x.org did start still, albeit with a
> jacked-up resolution.
>
> But in Laszlo's case, x.org gets "puzzled" too.
>

Maybe your distro's xorg has some generic vga fallback method. I am not aware that mine (Debian Testing) has one.
BTW I use Debian Testing (xfce) and glamor (compiled from git) so i need a specific xorg.conf.