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On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 19:09 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 16:09 -0800, Bob Sanders wrote: |
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> >> Mark Knecht, mused, then expounded: |
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> >> > far no luck but I'm learning so it's interesting. |
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> >> > |
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> >> > My quick question goes like this - if I boot with no drivers I get |
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> >> > a VGA console. If I modprobe a frame buffer driver at boot time then I |
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> >> > get a nice looking but slow frame buffer console. All good so far. |
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> >> > However my graphics adapter is supposed to use the i915 driver and |
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> >> > when I modprobe that - either in auto-load or at the command like |
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> >> > after logging in - my screen goes 'black'. I'm wondering what I do - |
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> >> > other than look at what's in dmesg - to figure out what state the |
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> >> > machine is in. Is the screen turned off? Is the driver running and |
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> >> > putting out 'black'? |
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> >> > |
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> >> |
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> >> The "black" is the monitor being driven beyond it's spec in either |
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> >> vertical or horitizontal or both. |
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> >> |
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> >> For it to work, you'll need a proper mode line that can be stolen from |
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> >> some other Linux system via a google search or by downloading puppy |
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> >> linux and using that to work out what X is doing. |
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> >> With X and gfx, /var/log/Xorg.0.log is your friend. Especially when |
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> >> used with a google search on the error message. |
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> >> Bob |
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> >> - |
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> >> |
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> > have you emerged a window manager/desktop? twm and xterm are no longer |
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> > provided with the server. |
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> No - I haven't since I cannot even startx and see anything. |
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> - Mark |
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I believe the black screen is in fact a running xserver that has no |
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display manager no window manager no desktop and thus nothing to |
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display. Recommend you emerge your favorites. |
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Alternate run: |
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X -retro to start xserver that will show the old black/white stipple and |
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a mouse cursor. |
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Note: you will have to do a power off to get out of X. |