From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KMwLq-0007Pi-W9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCD47E0415; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8267E0415 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46944664EE for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.157 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.157 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.442, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id AbeO1oQ6-THv for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA55F6649A for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KMwLd-0000Qp-Kw for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:01 +0000 Received: from athedsl-49250.home.otenet.gr ([87.203.169.176]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:01 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-49250.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 05:50:48 +0300 Message-ID: References: <1217115456.14561.10.camel@rattus.localdomain> <1217125191.14561.12.camel@rattus.localdomain> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-49250.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080715) In-Reply-To: <1217125191.14561.12.camel@rattus.localdomain> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 0bbc242f-ea49-4015-a03b-40e6e5c9df79 X-Archives-Hash: ab558b2611aac01e1426c2fc81bd891f William Kenworthy wrote: > Thanks, its an R280 (9200) on an old athlon - but I'll give the upgrade > a go. I don't think it will help on R280 (and it's not worth the hassle as xf86-video-ati 6.9.0 pulls in many ~arch packages (maybe [M] too even). As a starter, comment out every fancy stuff in xorg.conf and only use the bare minimum. Something like this: Section "Files" # Your font paths here. EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Blabla" Driver "radeon" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen 1" Device "Blabla" DefaultDepth 24 Subsection "Display" Depth 8 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 16 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection Subsection "Display" Depth 24 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480" ViewPort 0 0 EndSubsection EndSection Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Simple Layout" Screen "Screen 1" EndSection Section "DRI" Mode 0666 EndSection