Daniel da Veiga schreef: > > The livecd uses the VESA drivers, that should support most if not all > cards
Yes, I'm sure that's true-- but what I'm wondering is, does the LiveCD use the VESA drivers *no matter what* is returned by autodectection of the video hardware? My question here is because I have installed a lot of distros, and the thing is that as soon as autodetection got an ATI product ID back from the video hardware, I automatically got the radeon drivers. And for me, the radeon drivers are bad news. So I would always have to manually specify vesa anyway (after X broke). I would actually suspect that the same thing happens to nVidia users under most circumstances (they load the nv driver rather than vesa), but of course the nVidia open-source drivers actually work properly, so this is likely not a problem for them. So I'm originally asking if the card might be subject to this condition (since I have experienced signal loss errors due to misconfiguration of an ATI card, which misconfiguration is in some cases due to hardware autodetection mishandling the card when found). > so, what you are getting is probably a VSync problem, Xorg tries to > probe the monitor for supported resolutions and H/VSyncs, what > happened must be that it is using a Vsync not supported by your > monitor. > That certainly would explain things, but how broken would autodetection then be (or the monitor's EDID?? support) if it couldn't even detect/report its own Vsync range? Not that you might not be right, but that's really scary-- scarier than my theory of autodetect working properly, but mishandling what it detects. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
