From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 15:15:44 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F6A0106566B for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:15:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [67.158.26.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E89F8FC12 for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:15:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p3AFFeES059682; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:15:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) with ESMTP id p3AFFebH059679; Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:15:40 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:15:40 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: "Michael D. Norwick" In-Reply-To: <4DA1ABC5.2040902@centurytel.net> Message-ID: References: <4DA1156B.3080702@centurytel.net> <4DA1ABC5.2040902@centurytel.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 10 Apr 2011 09:15:40 -0600 (MDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:15:44 -0000 On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: > On 04/10/11 06:44, Warren Block wrote: >> >> Sounds like the video card went into power save. Pressing a shift key >> might have brought it back. >> >>> I would like to know if anyone else has experienced this or, if a PR is >>> necessary against the Xorg radeon driver. >> >> It's not clear whether you were running in the console or X. If X wasn't >> even installed yet, the radeon driver could not have been at fault. > > Yes, Xorg was running with gdm and gnome2. I was building packages from > ports in a gterm. > No, no combination of Shift-Fn or -Fn did anything. The keyboard > was active as the Caps-Lock and Num-Lock lights worked. > The monitor power save features are disabled. Maybe xscreensaver? Whatever's causing it, it's not a common problem. > I wonder if the Linux Catalyst Control Center app. from ATI would work under > VirtualBox-OSE? No, the hardware is virtualized to the VM.