Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:33:23 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Scott Ballantyne <sdb@ssr.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Widescreen Monitor and X Help please Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009221729070.73413@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <20100922211633.1269.qmail@ssr.com> References: <20100922081117.1785.qmail@ssr.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1009220708290.71257@wonkity.com> <20100922211633.1269.qmail@ssr.com>
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Scott Ballantyne wrote: >> Does the black screen show a mouse pointer? No escape including >> ctrl-alt-f1? > > No mouse pointer, nothing. The X process will be shutdown with a > ctrl-c or ctrl-alt-delete, but the screen remains blank, in "power > saver" mode. > > Nothing I do makes any difference on the monitor. It really sounds like a driver problem. radeon doesn't explicitly support the 5000-series cards, but I thought it would work. Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log. You can try the radeonhd driver, or even the vesa driver. > I've done that, and it works just the same. I saw your other message > about HALD and read your interesting link, aei.html. I disabled the > HALD and DBUS, and rebooted, tried again, but with the same results. Right. It's probably not an input problem.
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