I have motherboard graphics that work. I just hoped to get a bit more X performance out of it with a Radeon card. On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 5:40 AM Luke Small <[email protected]> wrote:
> It doesn't show anything ever and without seeing the screen, I entered > startkde4 with the normal user, per usual and it didn't show anything even > with a different xorg.conf > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:06 AM Matthieu Herrb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 06:22:17AM +0000, Luke Small wrote: >> > It fails to show anything other than a faint snow on the screen. Do you >> > expect that it will work on a DVI? >> >> Hi, >> >> Is that in console mode, once the kernel switches to KMS graphics, or >> only once you launch the X server ? >> >> In the latter case you can probably force it to use the 'modesetting' >> driver instead of the 'ati' one by creating a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file >> containing just : >> >> Section "Device" >> Identifier "Modesetting" >> Driver "modesetting" >> EndSection >> >> see the modesetting(4) manual page for some options that may help >> (SWcursor, AccelMethod) >> >> -- >> Matthieu Herrb >> >
