Re: [SLUG] Edgy Upgrade, more

[Peter Chubb <peterc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "david" == david  <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

david> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 16:30 +1100, david wrote:
>> I've upgraded to Edgy, and beginning to be sorry that I did.
>> 
>> So far I've had the following serious problems:
>> 
>> * LCD screen is invisible. I've had to use an old CRT. I've no idea
>> what the problem is except that the LCD is not faulty (works during
>> boot until X starts)

Dunno much about Edgy, but there's a kernel bug wrt setting the GPIO
pins on some Radeon cards that can give this problem -- it was in
2.6.8 to today's 2.6.19 snapshot.

The cure on the older kernels is to add:
	MonitorLayout "LVDS,Auto" 
to xorg.conf in the "Device" section (this assumes you're using the
`ati' driver.)


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