Kernel or Xorg what is the problem?

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Thu Aug 26 14:47:46 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 04:41 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote:
> Scott Talbot wrote:
> > Hi list:
> > 
> > After a weekend of cursing, I got my system up and running this A.M.
> > only to be puzzled by the sudden failure of my machine to properly
> > display vga modes after X is started.
> > 
> > My boot param includes the instruction vga=792 so that I get a nice Hi-
> > Res screen during boot-up and that works fine until rhgb starts up and
> > then I get a blank screen until Gnome starts and then I have a nice
> > normal 1280 X 1024 display.  If I do a Ctl-Alt-F1, I get an unreadable
> > display at the top of the screen (the balance of the screen still looks
> > like my Gnome background) The unreadable display is the console, as I
> > can see the cursor and if I then force a reboot with Ctl-Alt-Delete I
> > can see that screen scrolling data, I also can move a mouse pointer
> > within that area (though it appears as 5 blocks across the screen.
> > 
> > Well I was just about ready to file a bugzilla, when I tried a reboot to
> > an older kernel (2.6.8-1.524) and under that kernel the screen modes
> > work as expected. (though I have only the 1 resolution in X)
> > 
> > So has anyone else seen any of this? I tried to look in
> > freedesktop/bugzilla, but found no bug there.
> 
> There's no mention at all to what video hardware you are using, so it's 
> hard to guess as what could be causing the problem.  If you do suspect 
> it to be an X.org bug however, please file a bug in 
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org in the "xorg" component.  Be sure to include 
> all details, and your X server config file and log file as attachments 
> also.  6.8.0 draws near...
> 
> HTH

	Thanks Mike, I did post the bugzilla.  Yesterday's xorg update didn't
help, maybe today's will :)  update: removing rhgb from boot params also
helps, Still can't change resolution properly, but I can get to a
console that looks fairly normal.  BTW I use an ATI Radeon 7200 graphics
card.

Scott





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