* Re: [gentoo-amd64] video driver / system state question
@ 2010-01-26 0:09 99% ` Bob Sanders
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From: Bob Sanders @ 2010-01-26 0:09 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-amd64
Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded:
> far no luck but I'm learning so it's interesting.
>
> My quick question goes like this - if I boot with no drivers 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 via a google search or by downloading puppy
linux and using that to work out what X is doing.
With X and gfx, /var/log/Xorg.0.log is your friend. Especially when
used with a google search on the error message.
Bob
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