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Date:      Wed, 12 Jan 2011 11:40:05 +0100
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>
To:        Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>
Cc:        x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hybrid Graphics
Message-ID:  <20110112114005.744be974@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D2D74FA.2070900@infracaninophile.co.uk>
References:  <DF0B24345C3641848BD324CB1B448A4D@Nemesis> <4D2D74FA.2070900@infracaninophile.co.uk>

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:31:38 +0000
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> 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.
> 

Xorg -retro

-- 
Gary Jennejohn



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