On Mon, Jan 03, 2011 at 12:33:18AM +0000, Mick wrote:
> 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.
Hmmm ... I hadn't remembered KMS until I googled it, so I tried this ...
# grep KMS /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_DRM_KMS_HELPER=m
CONFIG_DRM_RADEON_KMS=y
# CONFIG_DRM_I915_KMS is not set
Is that good enough? I gather I915 is the Intel graphics.
I modprobe'd drm_kms_helper and the resultant Xorg log was exactly the
same except for one date/time stamp and all those [nnnnnn.nnn] times
at the beginning of each line.
I bit of googling found several old web pages, but they seemed somehow
not very useful. One said I have to disable the framebuffers, not
because they are dangerous, but because they don't support KMS. Since
X unloads the framebuffer module, I won't worry about that.
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