On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 08:28:42PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 20:26:50 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 07:19:49PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > > > Hey, neither can I. I've got pretty much the same symptoms. > > > I'll be grateful for any eyeballs/suggestions. > > > > I'm running a recent Toshiba laptop. The black screen chvt 1 > > problem hits when I use an external monitor. > > > > With the built-in monitor the switching occurs just fine. > > Does the laptop have Fn keys for changing the display brightness and > turning the external output on/off? Do they make any difference for the > blank screen?
These keys don't work under my current kernel version/drivers. I haven't visited this issue lately. It would be great to get them working (along with suspend and the wifi driver installed.) FWIW it's a Toshiba L305D-S5890. I get an external monitor to work by booting with the cable plugged into my RGB connector. > You could try "modprobe -v radeonfb". (As far as I can tell, this module > does not support your card, so this is a rather long shot.) I do get a result from that. $ sudo modprobe -v radeonfb insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/i2c/algos/i2c-algo-bit.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/video/fb_ddc.ko insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/video/aty/radeonfb.ko lsmod | grep radeon radeonfb 91680 0 fb_ddc 2080 1 radeonfb i2c_algo_bit 5188 1 radeonfb i2c_core 19828 4 radeonfb,fb_ddc,i2c_algo_bit,i2c_piix4 Does this mean I am changing video drivers on the fly? > Did you ever try using the "radeonhd" driver for xorg? No, not yet. Would that be using 'dbkg-reconfigure xserver-org' ?? > Other than that, some of the more general suggestions that I just posted > in response to Ed's last mail might be worth trying (e.g. vesa driver, > newer kernel from backports). Thanks for your suggestions! Joel > > -- > Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer > Florian | > > -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
