Comment # 13 on bug 1004453 from Felix Miata

Created attachment 716675 [details]
oops from journalctl

I discovered what follows as a consequence of investigating a mailing list
thread with the closest video hardware match I could come up with (list user
has Radeon 9250):
"42,2 installed -> black display"
https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2017-03/msg00163.html

# grep RETT /etc/*lease
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Tumbleweed"
# uname -a
Linux a-865 4.9.11-1-default #1 SMP Sat Feb 18 17:59:27 UTC 2017 (cf9c670) i686
i686 i386 GNU/Linux
# inxi -c0 -G
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV250/M9 GL [Mobility FireGL
9000/Radeon 9000]
           Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: ati,vesa (unloaded:
modesetting,fbdev,radeon)
           tty size: 111x36 Advanced Data: N/A for root
# lspci -xxk | grep -A2 VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
RV250/M9 GL [Mobility FireGL 9000/Radeon 9000] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Device 0082:0515
        Kernel modules: radeon

With this rv250 AGP card I replaced the comment 0 Matrox 550 card with because
of this bug. Could this have nothing to do directly or even at all with Matrox?
With the rv250 I must also remove vga= from cmdline to avoid black screen,
leaving the framebuffer ttys running in 80x25 mode, and no /dev/fb* devices.

(startx won't start Xorg either:
"(EE) systemd-logind: failed to take device /dev/dri/card0: Did not receive a
reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply,
the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired,
or the network connection was broken."
Trying  locks up console I/O entirely, requiring remote login or reset button
to proceed.
Trying to boot directly to graphical.target fails to reach login manager KDM3:
[    43.128] (II) systemd-logind: logind integration requires -keeptty and
-keeptty was not provided, disabling logind integration
[    43.129] (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0))