Re: Video not working on 5.01
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:57 +0200, "Daniel Baumann" <daniel@debian.org>
wrote:
> dave boland wrote:
> > Neither the default or safe mode would produce a video display other
> > than the cursor.
>
> just to be sure: did it fail to give any output at all, not even kernel
> messages when booting? or did 'just' x11 not work?
The kernel messages did appear, but very fast. Once X11 started, all I
could see was the cursor.
I will try the driver tomorrow and see what happens. I will also give
the 5.02 release a shot once it is available. I'll also look at bug
reports to see if a new one is needed.
Dave,
>
> if it's 'only' x11 resp. xorg that is not able to start, you can try
> skipping the automatic detection and passing xdriver=${DRIVERNAME} as
> boot parameter (where you have to replace ${DRIVERNAME} with the name of
> the matching driver for your card, which i don't remember offhand which
> one it is).
>
> > I have to say that I'm very disappointed in the result, but hopefully it
> > is something simple.
>
> i'm sorry too, but xorg auto-configuration is not anything that we
> handle ourselfs, we just let the postinst script of xorg handle all the
> magic. it's always easy to say that (and doesn't help you much), but
> it's most likely not our fault here.
>
> please let me know about if the xdriver= worked out for you. also, it
> would make sense to submit a bug report against xorg. and, unrelated to
> that, it might even be the case, that the new xorg uploaded to
> stable-proposed-uploads (that will be part of lenny 5.0.3) already has a
> fix for it. updated images for 5.0.2 will be soon available as well,
> where it would be great if you could have a try again with those.
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
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