i know ati drivers suck but i booted the live cd on my x300se card so i guess it's not really the problem.. maybe the screen don't support the resolution set by default (1024 x 768 was the resolution the live cd set by default on my pc and it worked great)
On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A.R.S. KA9QLQ Alvin Koffman schreef: > > Well I'm stumped. Every time I boot the live cd it gets to where > > Gnome should start then the monitor goes off. Does any one know what > > video drivers the live cd uses? Alvin > > > > For the best jerky you've ever had go to http://alk.jerkydirect.com/ > > My home page http://ka9qlq.tripod.com This PC is windows free with > > Mepis Linux 3.4-3 http://www.mepis.org/ 1(747)632-4973 SIP Get Gizmo > > 1 cent per minuet calling http://www.gizmoproject.com/ > > What video card do you have and what drivers? > > I've had similar problems (not with this graphical live CD, since I > installed Gentoo before it existed, but with X applications and X > itself), because I have an ATI card. ATI cards do do that (just shut > down the monitor) if 1) using the wrong drivers ("radeon" when card > model is one above the 9(2/5?)50 (sorry, can't remember which model is > the stopper for the Open Source drivers), and/or 2) DGA is enabled for > the fglrx drivers (this will do exactly what you described; it has many > times for me, and it is just one of the many PITAs with the fglrx drivers). > > The thing is-- in theory, I have no evidence to support this-- that > GNOME (I am a GNOME user as opposed to a KDE user, though I don't use > either of those DE's regularly or "first" during a new install due to > their size) appears to require 3D support be working in order to load > properly. Or at least, the hardware acceleration must be working if > you're using drivers that supposedly support said acceleration. As I > said, I have no evidence for this /per se/; it's just my theory based on > experience. If you're using the 'vesa' drivers (which don't support 3D), > I betcha GNOME will load fine (at least it always does for me), but as > soon as you load drivers in your X config that are supposed to support > hardware acceleration/OpenGL/3D, GNOME will break if that support is > broken (even though, afaik, no basic operation of GNOME actually uses > 3D-- that's why this is a "theory" and seemingly rather a crackpot one, > but it's the only theory that fits my experience). > > So I would suggest first changing your xorg.conf to load the vesa > drivers, which should load (that's what they're for, default drivers > that should always be able to load and display), then editing your > xorg.conf to resolve the "obvious" problem that it must have. Some > option or driver causes your video card to stop sending a signal. I know > that >=9600 ATI cards do this when DGA is enabled on the fglrx drivers, > and also that >=9(2/5?)50 cards do strange things when using the > "radeon" drivers which don't support these models for hardware > acceleration, as opposed to the "fglrx" drivers which do-- but the > LiveCDs will tend to (in my experience) recognize my 9800SE as an ATI > card and load the "radeon" drivers incorrectly because the "fglrx" > drivers that the card needs are not open source... and the "radeon" > drivers don't actually work properly for my card. But you may have a > different brand of card, or it could be a different option causing this. > > You might want to copy /var/log/Xorg.0.log to a backup location before > you try to start X with the vesa drivers (since the vesa drivers should > load correctly, it will overwrite the log with the errors and you need > to know what they are, so backup the log with the errors first, is that > I'm suggesting). > > But the first thing we'd have to know is what is the video card, and > what are the loaded drivers; then we can work on things like what video > options you set in the kernel, and what you've got for modelines and the > like in xorg.conf (though I doubt that the issue is modelines, since > that just knocks you out fo X completely with a "no screens found" > error, not kills your signal between video card and monitor while > leaving X actually running). > > Anyway, hope this helps. > Holly > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Cheers, Ghaith -- [email protected] mailing list
