Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:02:12 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org> To: x11@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: black screen on Thinkpad R40 with xorg-7.3 + xf86-video-ati-6.7.195 Message-ID: <200711280202.lAS22C5A094139@gw.catspoiler.org> In-Reply-To: <200711262317.lAQNHfCU087492@gw.catspoiler.org>
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On 26 Nov, To: x11@FreeBSD.org wrote: > After upgrading my Thinkpad R40 to FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 with xorg-7.3_1 and > xf86-video-ati-6.7.195, I now get a totally black screen in X. If I run > startx, the screen just blacks out even though the backlight is on. > Switching to a text vty works fine, and I can even type commands into > the xterm windows that are started. If I type "exit" into the > appropriate xterm, the Xorg server exits, and drops me back into text > mode. If I use the vesa driver instead of ati, X works correctly. > I don't see any obvious problem in the server log. After doing a bunch more searching around the net, I found that this bug is fixed in xf86-video-ati-6.7.196, which I installed by hacking the port's Makefile and distinfo files.
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