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 1MgPA0-0003hF-Ne for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:00 +0000 Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 207) id 758D4E07F0; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 01:56:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 05D34E06B3; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:02:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.147]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D01F2E06B3 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:02:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so1860998qwk.10 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:02:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:mail-followup-to:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=2dbGeXYqyXfWspULFuYgeTOn3Dpdnd9fjwGhwv5iaBY=; b=kw8kEgF9AEn1I8L+WNfIktPoIW8gc7KqgFfgAE3Vemqv4McBbA0HLpw5tfWhqTaakK b6l/OTh84pjmYzOwVF7WvaRtwKZbIuNIJQUCrVcLkLjb3vcVbJ2XXykmdl6G9yiVHW9M 3K4ReBiFi+JjXDMmGznQ4PNT71Y8OTbsvJjCQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:mail-followup-to:references :mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to :user-agent; b=qbZ53/BjRLgPDleE3kJTQJpfJajBoHrXxuecSZymv9IX5FZ1MmHW/6NHg8inQxwf37 65/MdZzejPCk9oMYsbrm51S7YPc/IASmdbcfLV+1AjEy2ZyXntHwki/vdDMPr+FNVVvA jkewE8iMSWPrJlPXmjt8fCSf7RtWQU0uuBVyg= Received: by 10.224.13.205 with SMTP id d13mr4763130qaa.217.1251266566416; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:02:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpe-71-64-105-56.neo.res.rr.com [71.64.105.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 7sm5089786qwf.46.2009.08.25.23.02.45 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:02:44 -0400 From: Simon Hunt To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server Message-ID: <20090826060244.GA2698@gentoo-desktop> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20090825012646.GA15962@gentoo-imac> <20090825012850.GB15962@gentoo-imac> <20090825170321.GA19153@princeton.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090825170321.GA19153@princeton.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Archives-Salt: 38ee4a20-86ef-4fc8-864a-df92eac35983 X-Archives-Hash: 9e805a0b6e8e483d6594ef899dbe387a Well I think I fixed the problem by upgrading the kernel to vanilla-sources-2.6.31-rc7 and xf86-video-intel-2.8.0 (and recompiling against the new kernel), and switching to the i915 module in the kernel. I did this because of the suggestions at http://www.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver (I already had xorg-server 1.6.3). However, now firefox is significantly slower and I'm wondering if that is a problem with the newer driver or the framebuffer or something. Is that possible? Or should I rebuild firefox? Another thing is that in menuconfig, there was no longer an option for the framebuffer driver for my chipset, but after openrc starts the boot process, the frame is suddenly buffered. How does that happen?