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Hi there! |
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Now all this X stuff is becoming really annoying. I struggled for days to |
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get it to work again after the upgrade to 1.6. I have a Radeon HD3200 and |
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tried using fglrx, radeon, radeonhd, vesa, or no xorg.conf at all. I got a |
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blank screen only and no apparent errors in the Xorg log. So it seems X was |
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running fine, apart from having a blank screen. |
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I had similar problems when I started with this machine half a year ago. |
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With every update of kernel, X or ati-drivers, I fear that my X will not |
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work when I reboot. And half of the times this is true. For some three years |
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before I had an old NVidia card, and experienced the same. But then I could |
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just change driver from nvidia to nv and got X running, just without |
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acceleration. What is quite annoying with my ATI card is that often I cannot |
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go back to text mode then I try something new in my xorg.conf, and have to |
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reboot. I know about Alt-SysRq-R, this works sometimes (but only once, not |
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if I start X again), and sometimes it does not. |
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The good news is, that with 2.6.31-tuxonice and ati-drivers-9.9-r2 suddenly |
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all is working perfectly. For this time, let's see what the next update will |
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do. |
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But there is this machine of a friend which I just updated. She did not do |
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this for about a year, mostly because she also had lots of troubles in |
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configuring her X. She needs a working TV-out, which complicates things even |
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more. And so she did not dare to change her working setup, I can understand |
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this. |
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Now I upgraded the machine, which was some trouble, too, many blockers and |
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such. That's done, all is perfectly fine I think. But I did that from |
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remote, now I tried to start X. Guess what happened. No apparent errors with |
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radeon, radeonhd or without xorg.conf, but the screen just goes blank, the |
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TFT enters suspend mode. With vesa, X hangs so I cannot go back into text |
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mode and have to reboot. |
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I replaced her TFT with a CRT monitor. Same result, whether I configure this |
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monitor or not, when I start X it complains about bad frequencies. |
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I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which |
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is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers might still |
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work for a while, but only with kernels < 2.6.29. And I suspect the problem |
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is not the driver itself, because radeon does not work, too, and I also had |
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similar problems of a blank screen with an ATI card and different drivers. |
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Today is her birthday, I intended to present her the updated PC with |
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accelerated X and KDE4, but now she cannot use it at all. |
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Any idea what do to now? Apart from buying a new graphics adapter, which |
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might work, or might not work. Or trying more monitors. The xorg.conf and |
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some log files are here, in case someone wants to have a look: |
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http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/tanja/ |
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Thanks, |
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Wonko |