Re: Black screen when starting X system

[Matthew Tippett <mtippett at ati dot com>]

Hi.

Feel free to CC me.  I am not hiding, but reserve the right to not 
respond if I am too busy :).

There is the MonitorLayout option which allows you to overwrite the 
default detection.

You may want to try

	Option "MonitorLayout" "TMDS,AUTO"

In the release in about two months, we should detect some LVDS/TMDS 
monitors more correctly.  YMMV, please provide feedback.

Regards,

Matthew

Flavio Stanchina wrote:
> Mateusz wrote:
>
> > [...] when starting XFree86 (4.3.0.1) to get to the KDE the screen 
> > just turns black and that's it(I'm using kdm so it's automatic). 
>
>
> This looks suspiciously like what happens on my Radeon 8500 LE: the DVI 
> connector simply doesn't work with fglrx, but in my case the monitor is 
> not even detected (the monitor, connector and TMDS type all say "none").
>
> I'm sure it's not a hardware problem, because the DVI connector works 
> just fine with the Windows driver and with the Linux text mode console.
>
> Matthew, I'm BCCing you in the hope that you can forward this to the 
> right engineer. I already reported this months ago using the feedback 
> form, someone replied and I convinced him that he should forward it to 
> the Linux team if possible, but I never got an answer.

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