Re: Mebius MP 50G black screen on X
On Friday 30 December 2005 10:29, Charles Muller wrote:
> After having run my Sharp Mebius MP 50G successfully for a while with
> Woody, and then Sarge, I recently installed Etch Beta 1, but can't
> get X working. When I try to startx, it doesn't bounce back out, but
> just goes into a black screen, after which I can't shut X down with my
> keyboard.
>
> The default install seems to be xserver-xorg, and so I ran through
>
> dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
>
> a couple of times, trying different screen resolutions, turning frame
> buffering on and off, but with no changes in the results.
>
> The graphics card is an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, which is recognized
> when installing x-windows.
>
> I upgraded to unstable, and retried everything, but the results were
> the same.
>
> I can get it working with Knoppix (and I suppose I can revert to my
> old Sarge installation if necessary), but I'd prefer to run a straight
> Debian system with Etch, and if possible, Sid.
Why not start up Knoppix, copy the X configuration to the hard disk,
reboot with Debian and copy the X configuration file into /etc/X11.
It may require a bit of tweeking, but it should have the right
settings for the resolution etc in it.
David
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Chuck
>
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> Faculty of Humanities
> 1660 Hiregasaki, Nagareyama-shi
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