From: William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:19:51 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217125191.14561.12.camel@rattus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g6ggoh$9c6$1@ger.gmane.org>
Thanks, its an R280 (9200) on an old athlon - but I'll give the upgrade
a go.
BillK
On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 03:50 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> William Kenworthy wrote:
> > I have a machine thats sudeenly lost its console sessions. I dont think
> > its the kernel as the config looks ok, and it *used to work*. Its fine
> > on bootup, but once X starts, switching to a console just gives a blank
> > screen.
> >
> > Its a radeon video card using the radeon driver if that makes a
> > difference
>
> Which Radeon? If it's an R500 chip (X1000 series) I had the same
> problems on AMD64. I fixed it by upgrading to xf86-video-ati 6.9.0.
>
--
William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
Home in Perth!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-27 2:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-26 23:37 [gentoo-user] blank consoles after X starts William Kenworthy
2008-07-27 0:50 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27 2:19 ` William Kenworthy [this message]
2008-07-27 2:50 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27 6:30 ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27 7:08 ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27 7:43 ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27 7:58 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27 9:42 ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27 10:15 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27 10:24 ` William Kenworthy
2008-07-28 20:28 ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-29 14:05 ` Jorge Martínez López
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