Hello. This may be trivial or a known problem, if so please feel free to just point me to where the answer is. For some time now, in debian sid it has become a problem to use the nonfree fglrx driver with gnome 3, and with the latest xorg. So I finally bit the bullet and switched to the free driver on my laptop (sporting a mobility radeon hd 3400 series). The good: xorg appears to work fine, even if quite a bit slower, but since I am not after high-end 3D graphics, it's quite ok for me. The bad: as soon as kernel mode setting is enabled at boot time, the console disappears completely and is not visible anymore.
If I disable kernel mode setting, then the console stays visible, but gnome 3 will not work. Is there a known configuration, setting, workaround with which I can have a working text console *and* working xorg with kernel mode setting enabled (to run gnome 3 efficiently)? Since shit occasionally happens, especially following sid, I am used to sometimes drop to a plain text mode console to fix things, and having a laptop which is completely unusable until the graphic login manager fires up is, to say the least, disturbing... Thanks in advance, bye Giacomo -- _________________________________________________________________ Giacomo Mulas <[email protected]> _________________________________________________________________ OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI CAGLIARI Str. 54, Loc. Poggio dei Pini * 09012 Capoterra (CA) Tel. (OAC): +39 070 71180 248 Fax : +39 070 71180 222 Tel. (UNICA): +39 070 675 4916 _________________________________________________________________ "When the storms are raging around you, stay right where you are" (Freddy Mercury) _________________________________________________________________ -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/alpine.deb.2.02.1111241512280.8...@capitanata.oa-cagliari.inaf.it
