Bug#607767: Blank screen on starting X with Dual 2 GHz G5 and X800XT; DRM module not loading for radeon driver
On Die, 2011-01-04 at 14:35 -0500, dpickett wrote:
> The monitor does not go blank: it loses signal as the entire machine
> locks up. After starting X, I see a brief flash of text, then the
> monitor flashes "no signal" and the entire machine locks up. An ssh
> session on another machine is locked up, and I can not ping the Linux
> machine. The only way to bring it back it a hard reset.
So it's changed again from not freezing to freezing? :(
> If you look at the attached xorg.log and/gdm/:0.log you will see the
> xorg.log is very short--as if the X server/machine completely locks
> up--and it looks as if the :0.log shows Gnome/X unable to find a
> display, using CRT default and then entering TV Save mode.
Those messages are from the X driver, not from GNOME. They indicate a
problem with monitor detection which may explain why you aren't getting
a picture, though not the other issues.
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Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer
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