It doesn't show anything ever and without seeing the screen, I entered
startkde4 with the normal user, per usual and it didn't show anything even
with a different xorg.conf
On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 1:06 AM Matthieu Herrb <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 06:22:17AM +0000, Luke Small wrote:
> > It fails to show anything other than a faint snow on the screen. Do you
> > expect that it will work on a DVI?
>
> Hi,
>
> Is that in console mode, once the kernel switches to KMS graphics, or
> only once you launch the X server ?
>
> In the latter case you can probably force it to use the 'modesetting'
> driver instead of the 'ati' one by creating a /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
> containing just :
>
> Section "Device"
>         Identifier "Modesetting"
>         Driver "modesetting"
> EndSection
>
> see the modesetting(4) manual page for some options that may help
> (SWcursor, AccelMethod)
>
> --
> Matthieu Herrb
>

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