F11 mode setting fails on Radeon

[François Cami]

On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:03:57 -0400
Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:

> I tried the F11 beta snapshot 1 live CD on my Thinkpad T41 (Radeon
> Mobility 7500).  
> 
> When I boot with default options, the boot screen lights up in the lower
> left corner.  The lit portion of the screen spreads until the entire
> screen is mostly white.  The machine appears to continue to boot, and
> the keyboard remains responsive (at least caps-lock toggles the LED),
> but nothing I type appears to have any effect.  In particular,
> ctrl-alt-del doesn't reboot, ctrl-alt-bksp doesn't restart X, and
> ctrl-alt-Fn doesn't give me a virtual console.
> 
> Booting with the nomodeset option seems to work just fine (though, of
> course, without the graphical boot screen).
> 
> Which component should get this bug report?

xorg-x11-drv-ati please, mention [KMS] in the subject line.

François