Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: > BTW - EVERY problem I was having when I dealt with this sort of thing > a couple of months ago was visible in some sense in the Xorg.0.log > files. I would look for errors, figure out what was causing them, > mostly being config issues in my case, and then fix them and try >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Jesús Guerrero writes: > >> On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200, Alex Schuster >> wrote: > >> What kind of blank is it? Do you see the mouse pointer at least? Do the >> monitor(s) stay on or do they go into standby mode? > > The monitors comp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Jesús Guerrero writes: > On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200, Alex Schuster > wrote: > What kind of blank is it? Do you see the mouse pointer at least? Do the > monitor(s) stay on or do they go into standby mode? The monitors complain about bad frequencies. The TFT then enters standby mode, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > Can you post /var/log/Xorg.0.log on http://pastebin.ca ? Config file and logs are already here: http://wonkology.org/~wonko/tmp/tanja/ Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:47:44 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras writes: > >> On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: >> > I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) >> > which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers >> > might still

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/23/2009 06:47 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: Nikos Chantziaras writes: On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers might still work for a while, but only wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Alex Schuster
Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: > > I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) > > which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers > > might still work for a while, but only with kernels< 2.6.29. And I > > suspe

[gentoo-user] Re: ATI X trouble, again

2009-10-23 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/23/2009 03:15 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: I did not try ati-drivers. Her card is a RV505 (Radeon X1550 Series) which is no longer supported by current ati-drivers. Older drivers might still work for a while, but only with kernels< 2.6.29. And I suspect the problem is not the driver itself, b