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ahlen
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Joined: 12 May 2004
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Location: Linköping, Sweden
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 Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 4:14 pm Post subject: everything turns dark |
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Hi
I'm completely new to gentoo and had plenty of questions in the very beginning but i found answers on all of them here on this forum except one so far. Okay to the point. When i start gentoo is everything allright and in the first console as well but when i add another console (if you don't know what I'm speaking about, it's alt+F2) everything turns dark, very strange. I'm on a ati rage 128 and I think I got it right in the kernel configuration but anyway.
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ahlen
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Joined: 12 May 2004
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Location: Linköping, Sweden
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| Posted: Wed May 12, 2004 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Ok. The problem solved when I installed xfree but now everything is completely weird. When i start the computer its okay then it turns dark but when I start X it becomes bright again. Even more strange is that when I start another console and starts nano I can't get out of it and when I get out of it I can't see what I'm writing but when I press enter like three times it appears. Any idea someone? I start another topic about this as well. |
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Bellrang QT
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Joined: 16 May 2003
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I'm experiencing this same situation.. I'll clarify what's happening...
when I first start the system up, everything is great. I can switch between all my virtual terminals just fine. After I 'startx' however, my VTs get dim. The backlight (this is all on my laptop) stays the same brightness, but all text is very dim. I can start and stop X and the terminals stay the same. If I restart X, it is fine, but no matter what, the terminals all stay very dark.
I configured X with XFree86 -configure and just went with that (the XFree file I kept from my Fedora install wouldn't quite work out of box, so I opted for this for now) Incidently, Core 1 and 2 both worked fine on this same machine.
Any ideas why X is messing this up?
Dell Inspiron 1100
2.4.25-gentoo-r2 sources
xfree-4.3.0-r5
My XFree86 file:
| Code: | Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
EndSection
Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "extmod"
Load "dri"
Load "dbe"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "glx"
Load "speedo"
Load "type1"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "keyboard"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Monitor Vendor"
ModelName "Monitor Model"
EndSection
Section "Device"
### Available Driver options are:-
### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
### [arg]: arg optional
#Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
#Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
#Option "ColorKey" # <i>
#Option "CacheLines" # <i>
#Option "Dac6Bit" # [<bool>]
#Option "DRI" # [<bool>]
#Option "NoDDC" # [<bool>]
#Option "ShowCache" # [<bool>]
#Option "XvMCSurfaces" # <i>
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "i810"
VendorName "Intel Corp."
BoardName "82845G/GL [Brookdale-G] Chipset Integrated Graphics Device"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
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Edit: this should probably be in Desktops instead of Multimedia... but I didn't start it 
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Sebatical
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Location: Jacksonville FL
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:46 pm Post subject: *bump* |
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I'm having the same problem after upgrading my kernel from 2.4.23 to 2.6.7-rc2..
Anyone ever figure out a remedy to this?
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metalus
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Multimedia
