Thanks, its an R280 (9200) on an old athlon - but I'll give the upgrade a go.
BillK On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 03:50 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > I have a machine thats sudeenly lost its console sessions. I dont think > > its the kernel as the config looks ok, and it *used to work*. Its fine > > on bootup, but once X starts, switching to a console just gives a blank > > screen. > > > > Its a radeon video card using the radeon driver if that makes a > > difference > > Which Radeon? If it's an R500 chip (X1000 series) I had the same > problems on AMD64. I fixed it by upgrading to xf86-video-ati 6.9.0. > -- William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home in Perth!

