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From: William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:19:59
Message-Id: 1217125191.14561.12.camel@rattus.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Thanks, its an R280 (9200) on an old athlon - but I'll give the upgrade
2 a go.
3
4 BillK
5
6 On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 03:50 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
7 > William Kenworthy wrote:
8 > > I have a machine thats sudeenly lost its console sessions. I dont think
9 > > its the kernel as the config looks ok, and it *used to work*. Its fine
10 > > on bootup, but once X starts, switching to a console just gives a blank
11 > > screen.
12 > >
13 > > Its a radeon video card using the radeon driver if that makes a
14 > > difference
15 >
16 > Which Radeon? If it's an R500 chip (X1000 series) I had the same
17 > problems on AMD64. I fixed it by upgrading to xf86-video-ati 6.9.0.
18 >
19 --
20 William Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>
21 Home in Perth!

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[gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>