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On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:33:18AM +0000, Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 02 January 2011 21:18:14 felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:07:40PM -0800, walt wrote: |
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> > > On 01/02/2011 11:25 AM, felix@×××××××.com wrote: |
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> > > > My 1.9.2 upgrade didn't lose the keys, but it thinks the screen has |
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> > > > fewer pixels than before, and what it does use is pushed off to the |
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> > > > right (there is a column down the left side, roughly 10-20% of the |
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> > > > screen, which is inaccessible). |
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> > > > |
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> > > > I've included 3 logs -- the working 1.8.2, the failing 1.9.2, and the |
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> > > > failing /var/log/Xorg.0.log... |
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> > > |
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> > > The 'failing' log shows that the new Xorg-server is using the MACH64 |
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> > > driver, but your 'working' 1.8.2 log is truncated, so it doesn't tell us |
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> > > which video driver it was using successfully. |
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> > |
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> > I'm about 99% certain that it has always used the mach64 driver. I |
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> > wish I had an old enough backup to recover an old log, but this |
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> > current size screwup has been in effect for a while. It's mostly a |
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> > server, so X isn't vital, but I do want to get it working again. |
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> > |
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> > > Given only 8MB of video memory, maybe the vesa driver would work better? |
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> > > Dunno. Does your BIOS have a setting for the video "aperture"? |
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> You may get better results if you enable KMS in your kernel. |
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Hmmm ... I hadn't remembered KMS until I googled it, so I tried this ... |
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# grep KMS /usr/src/linux/.config |
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CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m |
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CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y |
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# CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS is not set |
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Is that good enough? I gather I915 is the Intel graphics. |
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I modprobe'd drm_kms_helper and the resultant Xorg log was exactly the |
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same except for one date/time stamp and all those [nnnnnn.nnn] times |
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at the beginning of each line. |
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I bit of googling found several old web pages, but they seemed somehow |
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not very useful. One said I have to disable the framebuffers, not |
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because they are dangerous, but because they don't support KMS. Since |
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X unloads the framebuffer module, I won't worry about that. |
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Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / felix@×××××××.com |
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I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o |
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