On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:30:03 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > So I proceeded to emerge xorg-server for real. No more keyboard problems. > Instead I get the black screen of death. The monitor on light starts > bliking, indicating it is getting no signal, ctrl-alt-backspace and > ctrl-alt-delete don't work, and only a hard reset on the box itself > gets anything going. > > My make.conf specifies VIDEO_CARDS="radeon", even though the automatically > generated /root/xorg.conf.new specifies > > Driver "ati" > > in the "Device" section. Could this be a problem? The hardware is a. ATI > Radeon all-in-wonder card. > > I tried replacing ati by fbdev just to get something working, but it just > told me it couldn't find fbdev. Presumably this driver was not installed. > Is the proper way to install this add in fbdev to the make.conf file: > > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon fbdev" > > or even > > VIDEO_CARDS="radeon ati fbdev" > > and then re-emerge xorg-server?
Well, that worked. X -config /root/xorg.conf.new gives me the usual grey tweed pattern and an X cursor. Both the ati and radeon drivers work, but fbdev doesn't -- not that I need it any more, of course. > Or is there a more straightforward way? > I still haven't found a way to browse the list of available packages > the way I used to do in Debian using aptitude or packages.debian.org. > > -- hendrik > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
