Bug 9715 - weird rainbow hippy graphics glitch on boot with radeon mobility 7500
Summary: weird rainbow hippy graphics glitch on boot with radeon mobility 7500
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Release (media or process) (show other bugs)
Version: 2
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2013-04-12 23:04 CEST by noes minombre
Modified: 2013-04-12 23:57 CEST (History)
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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
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