Xorg -- wtf? please help

[tekhneek]

My computer boots fine... then I see some radeon stuff (apparently starting xorg) then my screen turns black.

...doesn't blink.. not out of range or anything -- just solid black.

i'm using an ati radeon x800


pleeeeeeeeeease help

[devils casper]

when screen turns black, press Alt+Ctrl+F1 and log in. post the contents of /etc/X11/xorg.cong file.





casper

[tekhneek]

That didn't make a difference. it didn't even work, nothing happened.

[devils casper]

try some other combinations. Alt+Ctrl+F2, F3 etc... if system booted up correctly, then it should display a CLI login prompt.




casper

[daark.child]

The right key combination should be CTRL-ALT-F1 (you can use any terminals up to 6 so CTRL-ALT-F2 to CTRL-ALT-F6 should also work).

[bigtomrodney]

I have seen problems with ATI and DVI where you cannot change to the VTs. See if you can boot into runlevel 3 (try typing '3' when grub shows at boot time) and then cehck out the Xorg logs in /var/log.

[psic]

I have seen problesm with ATI and DVI where you cannot change to the VTs. See if you can boot into runlevel 3 (try typing '3' when grub shows at boot time) and then cehck out the Xorg logs in /var/log.

You can also add this to the boot line: 'softlevel=single', without the quotes, to get to a command line logon.

[mahlerfan]

Is this with the proprietary driver or the open source? I sometimes have had problems with the black screen with my radeon card, but not with the open source driver.

A quick fix just so you can get into X-windows is to run xorgconfig and select either vesa, ati or radeon instead of fglrx for your driver.

Another thing to do is edit out the cool 3d acceleration options-- dri and glx if you have them enabled, these appear in the xorg.conf file.