(Thought it was time for a new subject...) Brief synopsis of story thus far... Upgraded X11 infrastructure in the hope of fixing whatever the updates to "Testing" broke several months ago. The new server and radeon driver almost worked: mouse cursor was normal brightness, but the rest of the display was almost too dim to be useable. Moved existing xorg.conf out of the way, and the monitor would powerdown shortly after the xserver initialized: no signal on the DVI-0 output (where I've got an old 15" monitor plugged in using a DB15 <--> DVI adapter). The radeon driver couldn't detect anything connected to any of the video card outputs, so it defaulted to VGA-0. Nothing I tried in xorg.conf worked as far as forcing the output to DVI-0.
Finally tried moving the monitor to the VGA-0 output. With my old xorg.conf file, I got the same "mouse cursor normal, display otherwise dim" behavior. After moving xorg.conf out of the way, I got the most beautiful display I've ever seen at what is probably the maximum depth and resolution this monitor supports: 1152x864x24. I *had* been running at 1024x768x16, and would prefer the slightly lower resolution on a 15" screen because my eyes are sensitive to flicker at refresh rates at/below 60 Hz. For now, I'll give up on trying to run with the DVI-0 output (although it's annoying to have lost a capability I used to have). At least the monitor is auto-detected when it's plugged directly into the VGA-0 output. I guess it's time to dig through the Xorg.0.log file and see if there's an auto-detected 1024x768 mode I can specify in a minimal xorg.conf file. --Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
