From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NZbp0-0001S9-C3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:10:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EF26AE09E3; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f174.google.com (mail-pz0-f174.google.com [209.85.222.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79ADE09E3 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 2010 03:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk4 with SMTP id 4so3283411pzk.32 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:09:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=JdX7R3eNWzsx014+w6h48jMWY4B5FKSNy4pfbfDbkjc=; b=GydoUwxfFORj2Q9KfzL7OO/87ul25KxbU2YFl67ntnJFWyxcOvVrFgC1idatgsF5hQ qCbcKUn6ofuU7Qgs+CLy/8Wh2Leph4nSmxkWkHTxyyY5rB4RpSOU3ox1DS8t6jKFcqAT +FMkK9mXj+HRQL+mWVG8GqnXNXBq2Pa9hYu9w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=VSmKFKwD8KdUXvsc8isZhHGmp6A5Uphd4ek0jaY+yORhiZBaj027Fm3xRfPzjl+w73 nAChPFQ00MEdy2fN+lA+5wjUBmze70G4x7Thhh1H0IYuZlMslPKkdhOQkfAaf0V71CZf LQU29+Okw6pNkS0OmcpXEBSB9FfkOf78DKh68= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.201.14 with SMTP id y14mr513070wff.95.1264475352109; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:09:12 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1264465434.14075.3.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> References: <5bdc1c8b1001251520x3aae67b6ld7ba028d365eb757@mail.gmail.com> <20100126000912.GA806500@sgi.com> <1264465434.14075.3.camel@oddman.donahues.us.> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:09:12 -0800 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b1001251909v389e94a5l13100f89a7130afb@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6a04d11a-16ec-4884-a0dd-797f2f0f55f8 X-Archives-Hash: 0b32f5f808d506af0ee17b0266b544a2 On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Drake Donahue wrot= e: > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:09 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: >> Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: >> > far no luck but I'm learning so it's interesting. >> > >> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0My quick question goes like this - if I boot with no driv= ers I get >> > a VGA console. If I modprobe a frame buffer driver at boot time then I >> > get a nice looking but slow frame buffer console. All good so far. >> > However my graphics adapter is supposed to use the i915 driver and >> > when I modprobe that - either in auto-load or at the command like >> > after logging in - my screen goes 'black'. I'm wondering what I do - >> > other than look at what's in dmesg - to figure out what state the >> > machine is in. Is the screen turned off? Is the driver running and >> > putting out 'black'? >> > >> >> The "black" is the monitor being driven beyond it's spec in either >> vertical or horitizontal or both. >> >> For it to work, you'll need a proper mode line that can be stolen from >> some other Linux system =C2=A0via a google search or by downloading pupp= y >> linux and using that to work out what X is doing. >> >> With X and gfx, /var/log/Xorg.0.log is your friend. =C2=A0Especially whe= n >> used with a google search on the error message. >> >> Bob >> - >> >> > have you emerged a window manager/desktop? twm and xterm are no longer > provided with the server. > No - I haven't since I cannot even startx and see anything. - Mark