On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 01:07:40PM -0800, walt wrote:
> On 01/02/2011 11:25 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> > My 1.9.2 upgrade didn't lose the keys, but it thinks the screen has
> > fewer pixels than before, and what it does use is pushed off to the
> > right (there is a column down the left side, roughly 10-20% of the
> > screen, which is inaccessible).
> >
> > I've included 3 logs -- the working 1.8.2, the failing 1.9.2, and the
> > failing /var/log/Xorg.0.log...
>
> The 'failing' log shows that the new Xorg-server is using the MACH64 driver,
> but your 'working' 1.8.2 log is truncated, so it doesn't tell us which video
> driver it was using successfully.
I'm about 99% certain that it has always used the mach64 driver. I
wish I had an old enough backup to recover an old log, but this
current size screwup has been in effect for a while. It's mostly a
server, so X isn't vital, but I do want to get it working again.
> Given only 8MB of video memory, maybe the vesa driver would work better?
> Dunno. Does your BIOS have a setting for the video "aperture"?
No.
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