vesa driver or updated kernel

[Parrish M Myers]

Hello,

I'm not sure which it is... but since I have updated to the new
versions of the 2.6 kernel, the vesa driver is verry flakey!  As soon
as I logout the screen goes black, and all I can do is reboot.  It also
happens when I try to change to a console via ctrl-alt-1.  Has anyone
else experienced this?  

for help, I have an ATI Radeon IGP 320M on a hp pavilion ze4315us.

Thanks.

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[Andy Ross]

Parrish M Myers wrote:
>  I'm not sure which it is... but since I have updated to the new
>  versions of the 2.6 kernel, the vesa driver is verry flakey!  As
>  soon as I logout the screen goes black, and all I can do is reboot. 
I can confirm the same behavior.  Blank console (although the monitor
sync rate reports that the text mode *has* been set correctly) under
the vesa driver on a Geforce 5700 Ultra.  The behavior was the same
under both the XFree and xorg X servers.

The NVidia drivers work fine, although they require a kernel recompile
as the nvidia module won't work with CONFIG_4KSTACKS.

Andy

[Dan]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 at 16:37, Parrish M Myers wrote:

>  I'm not sure which it is... but since I have updated to the new
>  versions of the 2.6 kernel, the vesa driver is verry flakey!  As soon
>  as I logout the screen goes black, and all I can do is reboot.  It also
>  happens when I try to change to a console via ctrl-alt-1.  Has anyone
>  else experienced this?
>
>  for help, I have an ATI Radeon IGP 320M on a hp pavilion ze4315us. 
For what it's worth, I experience identical problems on my Compaq Presario
2133AC (with the same video adapter), whenever I try to do anything that
runs OpenGL stuff (such as screensavers, or glxinfo/glxgears). I haven't
tried what happens when one logs out, but I'll give it a go soon.

I believe that the radeon driver that comes with x11-org recognises the
IGP230M, and assumes it can do 3D, which it can't (yet). I haven't tried
the latest rawhide stuff yet either, but I hope to try that later today as
well.

Cheers,
Dan