Some success at last!
Ok, so I installed ubuntu 11.04 64 bit on another partition, compiled the 3.1.1 kernel from kernel.org, installed everything from xorg-edgers and placed the firmware for both sumo and turks in /lib/firmware/radeon and /lib/firmware/(kernel-version)/radeon.
I still get the black screen problem, but atleast now if I pass radeon.modeset=0 it uses software rendering and starts. For ubuntu 11.10 64 bit live image using radeon.modeset=0 just brought it to the command line and neither desktop nor installer will start in graphical mode.
Ok, so I installed ubuntu 11.04 64 bit on another partition, compiled the 3.1.1 kernel from kernel.org, installed everything from xorg-edgers and placed the firmware for both sumo and turks in /lib/firmware/radeon and /lib/firmware/(kernel-version)/radeon.
I still get the black screen problem, but atleast now if I pass radeon.modeset=0 it uses software rendering and starts. For ubuntu 11.10 64 bit live image using radeon.modeset=0 just brought it to the command line and neither desktop nor installer will start in graphical mode.
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