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On Monday, January 05, 2015 02:42:46 PM Helmut Jarausch wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> the recent update of virtual/opengl forced me to switch from my ati |
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> [legacy] driver to the open source driver (radeon) |
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> While I got X11 running, my console gets blanked before I can log in |
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> on the command line. |
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> Which (framebuffer?) kernel parameters have to set? |
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> It looks like the kernel or init process (openrc) tries to switch to a |
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> higher resolution (on the text console) when the screen (console) gets |
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> blanked. |
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> (Loggin in "blindly" and invoking startx, I get a running X-server). |
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> Many thanks for some pointers, |
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> Helmut |
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I'm not sure what is the problem there, I have amd/ati 4350 with free driver |
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on my system, works fine with X or tty. I don't know how you configured your |
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system, but you can always check gentoo_wiki/radeon [1], most modern amd/ati |
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cards need non-free firmware to work properly, even for some "more basic" stuff, |
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not only 3d (I think KMS needs non-free firmware too). |
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[1] - http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Radeon |