On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 10:17:35PM -0500, Nick Holland wrote: > oof. I got one of those, an old Dell thing. Accepts lots of things, > does none of them well, it seems. I'm still thinking you have a monitor > problem more than a computer problem, though certainly not supposed to > happen with DVI. 'course, I've had that discussion with my old Dell > thing, and it was wholly unimpressed with my logic. > > Is your monitor really 1920x1080? that's what radeondrm thinks it is. > That's kinda what my bluray player thought of my monitor, come to think > of it (it isn't), which is also shifted off to one side, iirc. > >
OK, I did find an adjustment on the monitor that worked. The monitor is actually 1440x900. Now it is working OK. Do you want me to do further testing? I have two actual monitors here. One widescreen and one regular. > ok, sounds like you have painful connectivity and a cranky monitor (or a > video combination with a bug), so for the moment, I'd suggest just > disabling the radeondrm driver via ukc>, and it will revert to the old > style text mode, which will probably work Just Fine for you. > > boot> boot -c > bla bla bla > ukc> disable radeondrm > *nnn radeondrm disabled > ukc> quit > [happy (hopefully) boot] > > IF you have another monitor of any kind of any attachment, I'd like to > verify your problem persists with it or goes away (without the UKC hack, > of course) > > Nick.
