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