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 1PfQGf-0004Ge-3B for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:07:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3E79E09A4 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E41F4E0827 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:58:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 733011B4136 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:58:37 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.878 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.878 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.279, BAYES_00=-2.599] 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 00hHVApNq7Lq for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB8451B40C3 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:58:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PfQ7j-0002et-Ra for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:58:23 +0100 Received: from athedsl-372472.home.otenet.gr ([79.131.6.246]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:58:23 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-372472.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 05:58:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: xorg 1.9 Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 06:58:19 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <525109.89919.qm@web45405.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-372472.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110103 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: <525109.89919.qm@web45405.mail.sp1.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c561fffada1ebdaade2a9432a5adc8fe 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.