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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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> 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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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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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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