Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-24 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: BTW - EVERY problem I was having when I dealt with this sort of thing a couple of months ago was visible in some sense in the Xorg.0.log files. I would look for errors, figure out what was causing them, mostly being config issues in my case, and then fix them and try

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers might still work for a while, but only with kernels 2.6.29. And I suspect the problem is not the driver itself,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers might still work for a while, but only with kernels 2.6.29. And I suspect the

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/23/2009 06:47 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers might still work for a while, but only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: Can you post /var/log/Xorg.0.log on http://pastebin.ca ? Config file and logs are already here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/tanja/ Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Jesús Guerrero writes: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: What kind of blank is it? Do you see the mouse pointer at least? Do the monitor(s) stay on or do they go into standby mode? The monitors complain about bad frequencies. The TFT then enters

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Jesús Guerrero writes: On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: What kind of blank is it? Do you see the mouse pointer at least? Do the monitor(s) stay on or do they go into standby