rhel7: Radeon driver with a Radeon card: screen goes black or fonts are strange

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Issue

  • Using the radeon driver, I experience unreadable fonts in the panel on the top of the screen, black screens (sometimes sporadically then the screen comes back) and totally locked up system

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0
  • ATI FirePro W5100 (possibly further cards affected)
  • radeon driver

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