Bug 9715

Summary:	weird rainbow hippy graphics glitch on boot with radeon mobility 7500
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	noes minombre <mageia-fromthedeep>
Component:	Release (media or process)	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	sysadmin-bugs
Version:	2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
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Description noes minombre 2013-04-12 23:04:49 CEST

This seems like it may be a continuation of bug 1951, which is marked RESOLVED. When I boot up, on my old thinkpad with a radeon mobility 7500 graphics card, I get these crazy-looking rainbow swirls. If I set nomodeset, the problem goes away and my issue is solved, since my card is too old to play around with wibbly wobbly graphics effects anyway, so I always turn them off. Here's what it looks like, by the way:

http://i.imgur.com/O8k9kQb.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GgelkM1.jpg

Comment 1 noes minombre 2013-04-12 23:10:06 CEST

forgot to add: I have radeon-firmware installed, too.

Comment 2 noes minombre 2013-04-12 23:50:09 CEST

I didn't realize this would have such an impact. radeon removed anything but KMS modesetting recently: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2012-November/002093.html, so I am stuck with the hippy art, or I get no graphics acceleration at all. At least it's interesting-looking.

Comment 3 noes minombre 2013-04-12 23:57:36 CEST

found the solution: I disabled the "splash" boot argument. This definitively solves the problem.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED