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 1RvWW3-0007km-Ip for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:06:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E77A8E06A6; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:06:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp1-g21.free.fr (smtp1-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FC14E05E8 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 16:05:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zimbra59-e10.priv.proxad.net (unknown [172.20.243.209]) by smtp1-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACBD6940105 for ; Thu, 9 Feb 2012 17:05:24 +0100 (CET) Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:05:23 +0100 (CET) From: Alain Didierjean To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] weird framebuffered X display Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <3ac1fd47-74ae-4e0b-9897-31cbaa096fd0@zimbra59-e10.priv.proxad.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 X-Originating-IP: [88.176.244.27] X-Mailer: Zimbra 7.1.4-GA3333 (ZimbraWebClient - FF3.0 (Linux)/7.1.4-GA3333) X-Authenticated-User: alain.didierjean@free.fr X-Archives-Salt: afa871e4-079d-4fd0-ae92-4cb0efd17e0b X-Archives-Hash: 0e2545bb4a81e2ad9ba35a7b5e676c3d Since I tried to swich to a frame buffered graphical display, following all steps described in the Framebuffer and Radeon pages of the gentoo wiki, all I get is a display of vertical colored stripes, the pointer appearing as a square. Known problem ? where should I look in the arcane config of FB, X and radeon (my graphic card is an ATI 3600)? I'm desperate.