Bug 661958

Summary:	radeon [Mobility HD 4250] Black screen in Gnome
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.4	Reporter:	Olaf Hering <ohering>
Component:	X.Org	Assignee:	Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <xorg-maintainer-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P3 - Medium
Version:	Milestone 5 of 6
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86-64
OS:	Linux
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Found By:	Outsourced Testing	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	Xorg.0.log .xsession-errors

Description Olaf Hering 2010-12-31 15:55:55 UTC

Created attachment 406676 [details]
Xorg.0.log

11.4m5 on a HP Probook 6555b, logs in bug #661953

A default gnome installation shows only a black sreen when X is running. The mouse pointer is shown, and also the gnome busy-mouse pointer and the cursor of the screen blanker.
All applications appear to run normal according to 'ps faux'.

Comment 1 Olaf Hering 2010-12-31 15:56:35 UTC

Created attachment 406677 [details]
.xsession-errors

Comment 2 Olaf Hering 2010-12-31 16:42:09 UTC

A default kde install looks ok, so the black screen is gnome specific.

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2011-01-01 19:22:48 UTC

Please try again with boot option 'nomodeset' (--> radeonhd driver). If that doesn't help also uninstall xorg-x11-driver-video-radeonhd package (--> UMS radeon driver).

Comment 5 Olaf Hering 2011-01-03 13:53:33 UTC

nomodeset as boot option helps

Comment 6 Olaf Hering 2011-01-03 13:58:03 UTC

I have to add, from the KDE session I installed the gnome pattern and logged out to kdm, then logged into a gnome session. This led to the effect that the kdm splash screen or background remained on screen and gnome started but did not display anything but the cursor variants.

Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2011-01-03 13:59:07 UTC

Thanks. Closing as dup.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 661981 ***