On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 07:25:36PM +0200, Oddball wrote:
Oddball schreef:
Stefan Dirsch schreef:
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 05:47:07PM +0200, Oddball wrote:
As this is done, how do i add 1002:5e4f to /etc/x11/kms-blacklist.local?
It's documented in the file itself. You know how to use an editor, do you? Also there is an example in /etc/X11/kms-blacklist.radeon.
ok, i'll try vi to look at it...
I hate to say it, but vi is not working. You can only read the help at the start, but not enter anything to get something done at init 3, it is set readonly (root account), and i know not how to change this.... :( I had to install mc to find my way around a bit (thought it was installed by default). I found the files and tried to edit them. This opened again an invalid vi, which just opened the vim help, but not the file, so unfortunately there is no way to get to the logs, or get something added via an editor as all the others require x, which cannot be started. loop.
Looks like you never used vi before. Anyway, in that case you simply can echo
the string to the end of the file.
echo "1002:5e4f" >> /etc/x11/kms-blacklist.local
This together with the sysconfig variable should make sure that the next time
the radeon module will be loaded with KMS disabled (modeset=0). Check with