On 3/8/06, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel da Veiga schreef: > > > > The livecd uses the VESA drivers, that should support most if not all > > cards > > Yes, I'm sure that's true-- but what I'm wondering is, does the LiveCD > use the VESA drivers *no matter what* is returned by autodectection of > the video hardware?
Well, it would be the safest way. But now that you mentioned it, I only tested in my machine (ATI, old one) and another server (NVidia, FX5200), both loaded without Direct Rendering and using VESA (but that could be result of failed autodetection). I think I'll ask at the devs list. > > My question here is because I have installed a lot of distros, and the > thing is that as soon as autodetection got an ATI product ID back from > the video hardware, I automatically got the radeon drivers. And for me, > the radeon drivers are bad news. So I would always have to manually > specify vesa anyway (after X broke). Now, a simple howto on getting your screen back after a video problem would be nice, wouldn't it? Maybe "HOWTO setup a generic video xorg.conf". > > I would actually suspect that the same thing happens to nVidia users > under most circumstances (they load the nv driver rather than vesa), but > of course the nVidia open-source drivers actually work properly, so this > is likely not a problem for them. > > So I'm originally asking if the card might be subject to this condition > (since I have experienced signal loss errors due to misconfiguration of > an ATI card, which misconfiguration is in some cases due to hardware > autodetection mishandling the card when found). > > > so, what you are getting is probably a VSync problem, Xorg tries to > > probe the monitor for supported resolutions and H/VSyncs, what > > happened must be that it is using a Vsync not supported by your > > monitor. > > > > That certainly would explain things, but how broken would autodetection > then be (or the monitor's EDID?? support) if it couldn't even > detect/report its own Vsync range? > > Not that you might not be right, but that's really scary-- scarier than > my theory of autodetect working properly, but mishandling what it detects. Yeah, you're right, I was so certain that VESA was default but now I'll check the livecd files to see how it works (when I have time for it). Pretty scary indeed. > > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
