Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:

> Mick writes:
> 
> > On Sunday 20 February 2011 14:20:56 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> 
> > Oh I see.  You've upgraded xorg, but not your kernel ... ?
> > 
> > If this is the case, then downgrade xorg-server back to 1.7 version.
> 
> X.org 1.7 has been masked, and will be removed from the portage tree in
> four weeks. Sure, you can keep the ebuilds in the local overlay, but I
> fear this will lead to trouble eventually.
> 
> I will do this for a while, too, but one day I will have to deal with
> it. This X stuff is really giving me great trouble. Or maybe I will just
> give up and get another graphics card, my on-board Radeon HD3200 does
> not seem to be supported well. But then, I am having trouble with X
> since I am using Linux, there were only few, short periods of time when
> X just worked.
Well, I could not even downgrade to 1.7 -- when I did and started gdm, I
lost my keyboard -- I had to login from somewhere else and do chvt to
get out.  Maybe this was because of hal or something, not sure.  I have
in my backups an ebuild for 1.9.2.902 which seems to work in preliminary
testing whereas 1.9.4 did not work at all with this kernel.

X stuff is sure quirky.


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