[Bug 561301] Re: [RV690] flicker on startup, dead black screen after some time with lucid if KMS enabled (Needs DVI quirk)

[Thomas Orgis]

About my mad monitor EDID ... are you talking about the existing LCD
connected to VGA or the non-existing DVI? The physical monitor shouldn't
be all that bad since it works without pain using an slightly older Xorg
(perhaps about a year or so) without KMS. Should really be the hardware
to blame? I hope it's possible to have the KMS code fixed up to work
like the old code used to work... and also without KMS, Xorg now detects
a sub-optimal mode. This might be due to some well-intended
improvements, probably.

Oh, and a side note: The splash screen business looks rather pointless in the current setup... after the boot manager menu, there is a delay where nothing happens visually and just a cursor on the top left of a black screen is shown... disk starts clattering in the background... at some time, the ubuntu splash screen comes up, but is replaced by the actual desktop very quickly.
Same for shutdown ... it takes some moments to kill the desktop... and then the machine is off after very briefly offering a glimpse on the splash screen. So, some stuff is perhaps too fast (the actual work) ... though I am not sure what the delay at the beginning is about (should re-test with stock kernel and initrd... but I think it was the same there). But then... this is off-topic, just on my mind because of the flickering also hurting the perceived smoothness of the bootup.

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[RV690] flicker on startup, dead black screen after some time with lucid if KMS enabled (Needs DVI quirk)
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