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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: blank consoles after X starts
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 03:50:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <g6ggoh$9c6$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217115456.14561.10.camel@rattus.localdomain>

William Kenworthy wrote:
> I have a machine thats sudeenly lost its console sessions.  I dont think
> its the kernel as the config looks ok, and it *used to work*.  Its fine
> on bootup, but once X starts, switching to a console just gives a blank
> screen.
> 
> Its a radeon video card using the radeon driver if that makes a
> difference

Which Radeon?  If it's an R500 chip (X1000 series) I had the same 
problems on AMD64.  I fixed it by upgrading to xf86-video-ati 6.9.0.




  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-27  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-26 23:37 [gentoo-user] blank consoles after X starts William Kenworthy
2008-07-27  0:50 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2008-07-27  2:19   ` [gentoo-user] " William Kenworthy
2008-07-27  2:50     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27  6:30       ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27  7:08         ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27  7:43           ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27  7:58           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27  9:42             ` Jorge Martínez López
2008-07-27 10:15               ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-27 10:24               ` William Kenworthy
2008-07-28 20:28               ` Nikos Chantziaras
2008-07-29 14:05                 ` Jorge Martínez López

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