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2013/4/18 Amankwah <amankwah7@×××××.com>: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I have a video card HD7870, I tried install the AMD Catalyst driver ~amd64 in portage, it works well under X. But when I press ctrl+alt+F1, the screen is blank?? |
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> Although I googled this problem I add nomodeset and radeon.modeset=0 video=uvesa to the kernel cmdline in /boot/grub/menu.lst, it didn't work at all. What can I do to solve this? |
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IIRC fglrx does not support KMS, hence no framebuffer. |
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The radeon parameters are of no use in this case; in order for the |
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proprietary driver to work properly, the open source module must be |
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blacklisted. So instructing the radeon module makes little sense. |
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Please correct me if I got any of these wrong; haven't used the binary |
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blob for about 2 years myself, the memory is slowly fading. |
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