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Re: Strange X phenomen since upgrade to X-org



Joe Hart <j.hart@orange.nl> wrote:

> I was going to snip this xorg.conf, but I decided to leave it.

But I did it :D
 
> 1) why are you running x on a server in the first place?
> 
> 2) Your problems lie in your video drivers.  Doing a search I found
> this: Workaround 1:
>  in /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>  set
>  Option "UseFBDev" "true"
>  to false, note in this case switching VT is broken and locks the box.
> 
>  Workaround 2:
>  use
>  Driver "fbdev"
>  rather than "ati"

Workaround 3:
use Driver "vesa"

On my box 'man i810' also gives me a man page with specific options for
my driver. I guess the same should be true for 'man ati' and 'man vesa'
if you have the respective packages installed (I don't).

HTH,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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