On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote:
<SNIP>
> Indeed, this is the same problem. The screen goes black and the boot
> finishes. The screen is still black. I shell in from another machine
> and start gdm:
>
> cruncher ~ # /etc/init.d/xdm start
>  * Setting up gdm ...
>                               [ ok ]
> cruncher ~ #
>
> and I now see the login screen displayed in beautiful 1920 x 1080. Pretty!!
>
> So I added xdm to the default start level, rebooted and I get the gdm
> login screen. I'm up and running. (Well, sort of. No mouse and
> keyboard but that probably isn't anything serious. Says it cannot find
> the evdev driver...)
>
<SNIP>

This was an ABI mismatch. Recompiled the evdev driver and away I go.
This is my first email from the new machine.

Radeon HD 5770 up and running!

- Mark
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