Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-26 Thread Simon Hunt
Well I think I fixed the problem by upgrading the kernel to vanilla-sources-2.6.31-rc7 and xf86-video-intel-2.8.0 (and recompiling against the new kernel), and switching to the i915 module in the kernel. I did this because of the suggestions at http://www.x.org/wiki/IntelGraphicsDriver (I already

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked: Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank, and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnected

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-25 Thread Simon Hunt
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 01:03:21PM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:28:50PM -0400, Penguin Lover Simon Hunt squawked: Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank,

[gentoo-user] Blank screen when starting or stopping X server

2009-08-24 Thread Simon Hunt
Sometimes when I start or stop the X server, for instance at boot when GDM loads, or when I logout of Gnome and GDM is restarted, the screen goes blank, and the monitor shows an orange light as if it were disconnected from the computer. The computer is still on, but I think it is frozen, because