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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:58:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ih5r14$5mi$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <525109.89919.qm@web45405.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>

On 01/19/2011 06:46 AM, dan blum wrote:
> I upgraded my xorg from 1.76 to 1.9 yesterday, including downloading the
> most recent drivers. When the new system did not work, I checked the
> xorg log (attached) and I thought that the problem was the mode setting.
> So in the kernel, I "enabled the modesetting by default" and now the
> card does not send any signals to the screen at all.
>
> I can go back to the old kernel settings. But does anyone know what was
> the initial problem, and what needs to be done to correct this.
>
> Thanks for any advice.

You seem to be using kernel 2.6.32.  That *might* be the problem. Try 
2.6.36.

Other than that, the usual stuff applies: Delete your xorg.conf (so that 
X.Org can automatically configure everything) and make sure you don't 
have VESAFB enabled in the kernel.




  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-19  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-19  4:46 [gentoo-user] xorg 1.9 dan blum
2011-01-19  4:58 ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2011-01-20  4:57   ` [gentoo-user] " dan blum
2011-01-20  5:56     ` Dale
2011-01-20  7:22     ` Nikos Chantziaras

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