Comment 8 for bug 1040526

These are the current workarounds for radeon users:

1. Turn on KMS - the boot parameter video=ofonly should do this. If this causes freezing then combine with radeon.agpmode=-1

2. Use the fbdev driver. To increase the colour depth use a boot parameter such as video=radeonfb:1024x768-32@60. Obviously what you write is monitor dependant, but note the 32 for the depth and not 24 (that caught me out for a while). You could alternatively write an xorg.conf to increase the colour depth.

You have suspend with the fbdev driver and that may appeal to some people. You get hardware acceleration with KMS and that maybe needed by some people. What you can't have currently in 12.10 is both.