Ross - On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 10:09:21AM -0400, Ross Vandegrift wrote: > On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 09:52:37PM -0700, Larry Doolittle wrote: > > ... screens go black when I start the X server. > > I've recently been seeing this symptom as well. Same Debian release, > ATI RS880 video. Maybe 10% of the time, when returning from video > suspend, the screen contents come up for approximately a second and > then the monitor goes blank. Switching to a text VT and back fixes > the issue. > > Only seems to be triggered on startup and return from power saving > mode.
My black-screen is 100% reliable. Maybe the underlying cause is similar, but the symptoms sound different to me. I never see anything, not even for a second. OTOH, maybe there is something there for a second but my monitor doesn't sync to it in time. Just for kicks, I installed the firmware-linux-nonfree package, so the kernel could have those radeon microcode files if it wanted. It didn't help. I don't see the RS780 on the list of files at http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/firmware-linux-nonfree except generically in the R700-family. I only have access to this computer for a limited number of hours in the day, so my debugging iterations may be slow. I have assumed that the problem is in the hardware-dependent xf86-video-ati-6.13.0 module. Is there any point in trying more recent versions of the X server itself? Squeeze runs xserver-xorg-core based on xorg-server_1.7.7 . - Larry _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: [email protected]
