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Subject: Re: Xorg Fails on HP Envy 3D Laptop
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on 20/07/2011 09:43 Thomas D. Dean said the following:
> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new  blanks the screen and the does nothing.
> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new screen='Screen0' fails with a blank screen
> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new screen='Screen1' fails with a blank screen
> 
> I changed the driver to vesa in both sections.
> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new screen='Screen0' fails with a blank screen
> Xorg -config xorg.conf.new screen='Screen01 fails with a blank screen

Are you sure that it fails?
Recent Xorg server _starts_ with a blank screen.  If you don't have any X clients
that draw something, then all you would see is a blank screen.

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Andriy Gapon