Ville Syrjälä [off-list ref] writes:

Unfortunately atyfb relies on the BIOS to initialize the card. You seem 
to have multiple cards in your system which won't work.

Incidentally, trying to remove the atyfb device when it's in this state
appears to generate an OOPS:

Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693237] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000030c
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693246]  printing eip:
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693250] f8861fed
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693259] *pde = 00000000
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693274] Oops: 0000 [#1]
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693287] PREEMPT SMP 
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693302] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc lirc_dev sg ipv6 cx88_dvb cx88_vp3054_i2c mt352 or51132 video_buf_dvb dvb_core crc32 nxt200x cx24123 lgdt330x cx22702 dvb_pll cx88_blackbird cx8802 cx8800 cx88xx bttv video_buf compat_ioctl32 i2c_algo_bit btcx_risc ir_common usb_storage snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc hw_random ehci_hcd uhci_hcd usbcore 8250 serial_core parport_pc lp parport w83627hf hwmon_vid eeprom i2c_isa i2c_i801 ivtv_fb msp3400 saa7127 saa7115 tda9887 tuner v4l2_common ivtv firmware_class v4l1_compat tveeprom i2c_core videodev atyfb fb cfbcopyarea cfbimgblt cfbfillrect gameport snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd intel_agp agpgart sk98lin rtc
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693466] CPU:    1
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693467] EIP:    0060:[pg0+943517677/1068938240]    Tainted: GF     VLI
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693469] EFLAGS: 00010206   (2.6.16-fb #1) 
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693483] EIP is at aty_set_crtc+0xa/0x68 [atyfb]
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693488] eax: 00000000   ebx: 04000000   ecx: 00000001   edx: f88687c0
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693494] esi: f4ff6000   edi: f8867d4c   ebp: f8867d9c   esp: e0135ef0
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693499] ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693504] Process rmmod (pid: 10452, threadinfo=e0134000 task=c1bbca70)
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693508] Stack: <0>00000000 f8862065 c1b5ac00 c1b5ac48 c0214732 c1b5acd0 c024b57c c1b5ac48 
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693525]        c1b5ac88 f8867d4c c024b830 f8867da4 c03a07a0 f8867d4c c03a07a0 e0134000 
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693541]        c024b10a f8867d4c f8868480 e0134000 c024bae9 f8867d20 c0214678 f8864f24 
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693556] Call Trace:
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693564]  [pg0+943517797/1068938240] atyfb_pci_remove+0x1a/0xc8 [atyfb]
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693579]  [pci_device_remove+22/40] pci_device_remove+0x16/0x28
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693592]  [__device_release_driver+82/119] __device_release_driver+0x52/0x77
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693608]  [driver_detach+163/165] driver_detach+0xa3/0xa5
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693625]  [bus_remove_driver+97/127] bus_remove_driver+0x61/0x7f
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693639]  [driver_unregister+8/19] driver_unregister+0x8/0x13
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693649]  [pci_unregister_driver+14/102] pci_unregister_driver+0xe/0x66
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693658]  [pg0+943529764/1068938240] atyfb_exit+0x0/0xa [atyfb]
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693675]  [sys_delete_module+311/427] sys_delete_module+0x137/0x1ab
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693689]  [remove_vma+49/54] remove_vma+0x31/0x36
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693702]  [do_munmap+375/462] do_munmap+0x177/0x1ce
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693740]  [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Apr  4 17:46:55 stark kernel: [78869.693783] Code: 81 ca 44 00 00 04 89 51 1c eb e5 81 ca 48 00 00 04 89 51 1c eb da 81 ca 40 00 00 04 89 51 1c eb cf 53 8b 5a 2c 81 e3 ff ff ff fd <8b> 88 0c 03 00 00 89 59 1c 8b 5a 14 8b 88 0c 03 00 00 89 19 8b 



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