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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:51:15
Message-Id: g6gnqb$m82$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts by William Kenworthy
1 William Kenworthy wrote:
2 > Thanks, its an R280 (9200) on an old athlon - but I'll give the upgrade
3 > a go.
4
5 I don't think it will help on R280 (and it's not worth the hassle as
6 xf86-video-ati 6.9.0 pulls in many ~arch packages (maybe [M] too even).
7
8 As a starter, comment out every fancy stuff in xorg.conf and only use
9 the bare minimum. Something like this:
10
11 Section "Files"
12 # Your font paths here.
13 EndSection
14
15
16 Section "Device"
17 Identifier "Blabla"
18 Driver "radeon"
19 EndSection
20
21
22 Section "Screen"
23 Identifier "Screen 1"
24 Device "Blabla"
25 DefaultDepth 24
26 Subsection "Display"
27 Depth 8
28 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
29 ViewPort 0 0
30 EndSubsection
31 Subsection "Display"
32 Depth 16
33 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
34 ViewPort 0 0
35 EndSubsection
36 Subsection "Display"
37 Depth 24
38 Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
39 ViewPort 0 0
40 EndSubsection
41 EndSection
42
43
44 Section "ServerLayout"
45 Identifier "Simple Layout"
46 Screen "Screen 1"
47 EndSection
48
49
50 Section "DRI"
51 Mode 0666
52 EndSection

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blank consoles after X starts "Jorge Martínez López" <jorgeml@×××××.com>