On Sunday 02 January 2011 21:18:14 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > 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"?
You may get better results if you enable KMS in your kernel. -- Regards, Mick
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