Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:10:15 +0100 From: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hybrid Graphics Message-ID: <20110112101014.GB19533@megatron.madpilot.net> In-Reply-To: <4D2D74FA.2070900@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <DF0B24345C3641848BD324CB1B448A4D@Nemesis> <4D2D74FA.2070900@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 09:31:38AM +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 12/01/2011 08:48, Nils Holland wrote: > > The result is, basically, disappointing: X starts, the Xor logfile > > actually contains stuff that looks "good", but unfortunately, I only end > > up with a completely blank laptop screen (in the sense that the > > backlight of the screen is on, but otherwise the screen is totally black). > > Recent versions of X11 behave in this way to indicate that the display > is working correctly. Yes, it's pretty daft and hard to distinguish > from various failure modes. There's a switch you can apply to make it > revert to the legacy gray patterned screen. Perhaps a pointer to some documentation could be appreciated. This is explained in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html -- Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
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