On Sun, 12 Apr 2009 23:30:16 +0100 Jeremy Henty <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I've been using Xorg 7.2 on my LFS 6.3 system without problems, but > when I upgrade to Xorg 7.4 I get a black screen and a lockup when I > start X. My video card is an ATI Radeon 9250 PCI. Looking at the > xorg.conf.new I see that the server has failed to identify the card > (yet Xorg 7.2 identifies it without any problems). > > Now I've noticed this paragraph from the manual: > > Recent versions of xorg-server force the use of the evdev input > driver, and ignore legacy input devices definded in xorg.conf. > This will result in an X display that seems to lock up if you are > using legacy input devices and do not have the proper input > configuration files in place (added later). > The blank screen is not caused by not using edev, that presents a good looking dead desktop :) The blank screen may be agp mode mismatch. 7.4 tried to use 4x but my original R200 just does 2x. I set it 2x in the bios and in xorg.conf (hey, doesn't hurt to be sure). Anyway that was my bug. Good luck. --- David Jensen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
