I have disabled the gd3 from loading on boot up and now i can not get
the black login screen on the server console.
I have installed the firmware-linux-nonfree debian package.
Running Debian squeeze.

in dmesg i get :

3.748901] [drm] radeon: Initializing kernel modesetting.
[ 3.749118] [drm] register mmio base: 0xDFFF0000
[ 3.749120] [drm] register mmio size: 65536
[ 3.749450] [drm] GPU reset succeed (RBBM_STATUS=0x00000140)
[ 3.749470] [drm] radeon: VRAM 64M
[ 3.749472] [drm] radeon: VRAM from 0x00000000 to 0x03FFFFFF
[ 3.749474] [drm] radeon: GTT 512M
[ 3.749476] [drm] radeon: GTT from 0x20000000 to 0x3FFFFFFF
[ 3.749496] [drm] radeon: irq initialized.
[ 3.752333] [drm] Detected VRAM RAM=64M, BAR=128M
[ 3.752336] [drm] RAM width 16bits DDR
[ 3.752444] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 7719818 kiB.
[ 3.752447] [TTM] Zone dma32: Available graphics memory: 2097152 kiB.
[ 3.752470] [drm] radeon: 16M of VRAM memory ready
[ 3.752472] [drm] radeon: 512M of GTT memory ready.
[ 3.752507] [drm] GART: num cpu pages 131072, num gpu pages 131072
[ 3.763593] [drm] radeon: cp idle (0x00008080)
[ 3.763644] [drm] Loading R100 Microcode
[ 3.763648] platform radeon_cp.0: firmware: requesting radeon/R100_cp.bin
[ 3.811626] [drm] radeon: ring at 0x0000000020000000
[ 3.811650] [drm] ring test succeeded in 1 usecs
[ 3.811755] [drm] radeon: ib pool ready.
[ 5.812015] [drm] ib test succeeded in 0 usecs
[ 5.812132] [drm] No valid Ext TMDS info found in BIOS
[ 5.812193] [drm] Radeon Display Connectors
[ 5.812195] [drm] Connector 0:
[ 5.812196] [drm] VGA
[ 5.812198] [drm] DDC: 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60 0x60
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5.812200] [drm] Encoders:
[ 5.812201] [drm] CRT1: INTERNAL_DAC1
[ 5.812203] [drm] Connector 1:
[ 5.812205] [drm] DVI-D
[ 5.812206] [drm] HPD2
[ 5.812208] [drm] DDC: 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64 0x64
[ 5.812210] [drm] Encoders:
[ 5.812211] [drm] DFP2: INTERNAL_DVO1
[ 6.048505] [drm] fb mappable at 0xD0040000
[ 6.048507] [drm] vram apper at 0xD0000000
[ 6.048508] [drm] size 786432
[ 6.048510] [drm] fb depth is 8
[ 6.048511] [drm] pitch is 1024
[ 6.296024] [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x08 0x30 write failed
[ 6.392023] [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x09 0x00 write failed
[ 6.488023] [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x0a 0x90 write failed
[ 6.584023] [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x0c 0x89 write failed
[ 6.680024] [drm:radeon_i2c_sw_put_byte] *ERROR* i2c 0x08 0x3b write failed
[ 6.697915] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
[ 6.716915] fb0: radeondrmfb frame buffer device
[ 6.716917] registered panic notifier
[ 6.716929] [drm] Initialized radeon 2.0.0 20080528 for
0000:01:06.0 on minor 0
[ 6.953645] Adding 6081528k swap on /dev/sda5. Priority:-1
extents:1 across:6081528k
[ 7.042746] EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
[ 7.094902] loop: module loaded
[ 8.096668] fuse init (API version 7.13)
[ 8.742893] RPC: Registered udp transport module.
[ 8.742897] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
[ 8.742899] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
[ 9.062919] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
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anyone has any ideas ?


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