Hi Markus,
From lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility Radeon 9600 M10]
I get the following messages from /var/log/Xorg.0.log that seem like they might be relevant butnot sure what they mean.
[ 28.443] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module does not exist, 0) [ 29.193] (EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring) [ 29.211] (EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring) [ 29.213] (EE) ioctl EVIOCGNAME failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device [ 29.213] (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" [ 29.213] (EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring) [ 281.728] (EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
[ 282.896] (EE) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring) [ 1483.375] (II) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument (Screen blanking not supported by vesafb of Linux Kernel) [ 1483.375] (II) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument (Screen blanking not supported by vesafb of Linux Kernel) [ 1483.379] (II) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument (Screen blanking not supported by vesafb of Linux Kernel) [ 1810.579] (II) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument (Screen blanking not supported by vesafb of Linux Kernel) [ 1810.579] (II) FBDEV(0): FBIOBLANK: Invalid argument (Screen blanking not supported by vesafb of Linux Kernel)
Thank you, Bruce.
On Wednesday 19 January 2011 00:52:22 Markus Koßmann wrote,
What type of information should I collect to find the problem? I would really like to fix this.
Could you tell us more about the hardware (i.e graphics card) ? Are there any hints to the problem in the log files /var/log/Xorg.0.log and/or /var/log/messages ?
Are you running in a VirtualBox virtual machine? It is strange that otherwise you would be getting an error on loading the VirtualBox video driver. The next error you are getting is a failure to load the fallback vesa framebuffer driver. Possibly for some reason the new automatic driver detection by X is not working for you. In the past I had an RV350 card and it worked fine with both the ATI proprietary driver and radeon open source. Somebody help me out here: I know that when X was changed to do its automatic on-the-fly configuration, it would first use /etc/X11/xorg.conf if that file still existed. But didn't that get subsequently get changed to a rules file (maybe under modprobe.d)??? I don't remember offhand. Bruce, when you do an lsmod, what is the video driver that is loaded? You may need to force X to use to right driver. (Unless of course this is VBox, which will be a different problem.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org