From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Screen not turning on at startx. Nvidia Gfx
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:14:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201109191115.12466.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG+b7UXX5GM_vZU2mu_KrLWYRmvfQy9RWvSytcrtHrahR8q0+g@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 19 Sep 2011 09:05:21 Datty wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been having a few problems with my gentoo install mainly on boot where
> my screen will be blank when starting X. X is definitely working in the
> background because I can login blind and hear the login sound. To get it to
> work I have to continually switch between ttys until it decides to work
> properly. Once into the X session with the screen on its fine, acceleration
> etc is ok and it will happily resume from screensaver and display off. I
> should point out though that the machine I'm using is a sony z13 with
> hybrid graphics but I've got the bios forced to only use the nvidia card,
> mainly because I couldn't even get the live cd to start with the hybrid
> graphics on. I've attached my xorg.conf and my xorg.log. I've noted the
> error in the xorg.log but the error is output even when the screen does
> work correctly.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks
>
> Oliver
Yes, your log shows: video=uvesafb
Which doesn't work nicely with KMS, that the latest kernels provide. Have you
looked at:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml
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Regards,
Mick
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 10:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-19 8:05 [gentoo-user] Screen not turning on at startx. Nvidia Gfx Datty
2011-09-19 10:14 ` Mick [this message]
2011-09-19 15:23 ` Datty
2011-09-19 15:33 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-10-18 9:32 ` Datty
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