[arch-general] [signoff] kernel 2.6.36-3

Matthew Monaco dgbaley27 at verizon.net
Wed Nov 10 00:17:46 CET 2010


On 11/08/2010 07:49 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
> On 11/08/2010 07:34 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
>> On 11/08/2010 03:14 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
>>> On 11/07/2010 05:23 PM, Matthew Monaco wrote:
>>>> Anyone have issues changing from Xorg to one of the tty's? I've got a radeon
>>>> r600.
>>>
>>> Mathhew,
>>>
>>> I'll give it a go after install 2.6.36-3. (Which I'm somewhat scared to do.)
>>> This box has an X800PE card that is running perfectly (fast as hell) with
>>> compiz, etc.. with 2.6.35-8 and the radeon driver. (never thought I would say
>>> that)
>>>
>>> So it's with a bit of trepidation, I update :p
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ok, just boot into X and then try ctrl+alt+f1... I had initially noticed that my
>> screen wasn't coming back after a resume, and I think this is related. When the
>> screen doesn't come back, I can play around with the terminals until a
>> ctrl+alt+f7 lands me back at a functioning screen.
>>
>
> Hmm, this appears to be related to the fact that I had "video=VGA-1:d" in my
> grub kernel command line. I used to have a TV connected to the VGA port and
> didn't like the way KMS set a small resolution on my main computer monitor. I
> don't need the VGA-1:d anymore, but this still shouldn't cause the black screen...
>

Started happening again w/o video=VGA-1:d, so there goes that idea.


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