gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote: > Recently i tried to install gentoo on a aspire 1300 laptop with a savage > graphics card. Everthing worked fine till i started to configute the X > server. For some reason which i don't understand, when starting X only > about 1/4 of the screen are grey - the rest of the screen stays blank > and you can't move the mousepointer outside of the grey box. But somehow > it must work, because when i boot up with the live-cd-2005.0 and then > chroot into my installation environment, i can configure and start X > without problems. > > Here is a short description of the things i allready tried: > At first, after realizing that it works with the gentoo-boot cd, i > thought, that maybe somehow the framebuffer makes the differnece. So i > configured the system to use a simple framebuffer console without a > splashimage with the help of > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Framebuffer:Bootsplash:Grubsplash#2.6.8_and_newer_kernels > .. Allthough that was easier than i thought, the problems with X remain. > I tried removing agp-gart support from the kernel [which is > linux-2.6.11.10 ] and played around with different monitor and device > optins in my xorg config file. > > Maybe someone has an idea what to do... > Thanks, > Antonio
Ok, lucky as i am, i've allready solved my problem: The line "Virtual 1024 768" in the "Display" section did the trick - don't ask me why ... Antonio -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
