Re: Radeon on Thinkpad A31 "invisible" text

[Brandon Wickelhaus <bwickelhaus%gmail.com@localhost>]

I've a few Radeon cards that do somewhat the same thing.  One will
occasionally change the colour palette between reboots, but not on
clean starts.  Another is in a Thinkpad as well, though its an r60.
That one always boots nearly invisible if the driver is enabled,
though if the system is configured for X, once it starts the palette
shifts to a normal one.

You may have to decide if you want a legible console, or accelerated X
and then either disable the driver in the kernel, or on boot with
boot.conf, or do it at least once to set up X and keep up a boot menu
option to disable it in case X ever has issues.