[Savage40] T22 DRI black screen

[Alex Deucher]

--- nand <nandhp at myrealbox.com> wrote:
> >From: "Alex Deucher"<agd5f at yahoo.com>
> >Sent: 5/16/05 6:05:26 PM
> >Subject: Re: [Savage40] T22 DRI black screen
> >
> >do you get an output on the vga port?  It sounds like the LCD is
> >getting turned off for some reason.  are you able to start X at a
> lower
> >res with the load "dri" line commented out?  what about starting X
> and
> >switching to a lower res with ctrl-alt-+/-. are you using the bios
> to
> >set modes or not?
> 
> Very strange: I tried running X at a low resolution without DRI and
> it worked, so then I turned DRI back on and it still worked -- Except
> now glxgears gets 153fps when maximized, and tuxracer is playable. I
> don't suppose there's anyway to reload DRI when changing video modes
> without restarting X? Ctrl+Alt+(-/+) didn't do anything.
> 

nope.  X always maintains the full framebuffer allocation even when you
use ctrl-alt-+/- or xrandr, so you will always have too little vram
unless you start X ins a lower res to begin with.

Alex

> Thanks very much for your help!
> 
> -nand
> 
> 
> 


		
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