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Subject: Re: Cannot switch tty's after install xorg, gnome and gdm
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 21:13, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Rob Farmer wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:32, LOL <elvis4526@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys.
>>> On every release of freebsd that i tried (-CURRENT, -STABLE, -RELEASE)
>>> everything goes fine until I install xorg, gdm and gnome by packages
>>> or not it does not make any difference. When I boot with
>>> gnome_enable=3D"YES" , and gdm start, when I try to change tty, on ever=
y
>>> tty, its a black screen and my monitor tell me, power saving mode
>>> enable until I switch back to gdm. I installed the xf86-video-ati
>>> driver and I have an ati radeon HD 5770.
>>
>> The correct driver for recent ATI cards is xf86-video-radeonhd. And
>> try the WITHOUT_NOUVEAU knob as David suggests.
>
> Actually, the radeon driver from xf86-video-ati is more solid and likely =
to
> work reliably, even with newer cards. =A0Features for 5000-series cards a=
re
> sparse, though. =A0It appears that work on radeonhd has dropped off.
>

Sorry - I seem to have gotten confused between "radeon" (which comes
from the ati package) and "radeonhd" which is separate - and just
froze my system as I was figuring this out :).

--=20
Rob Farmer