August 18, 2010

I recently upgraded xorg on my workstation at the office. Immediately I started seeing problems with one of the monitors. It would go empty/blank/black for three seconds, then resume normal operation. Then it would go blank again when I interacted with the screen. In short, that one monitor was completely useless. Swapping cables on the […]

This is the /var/log/Xorg.0.log for my RadeonHD. X.Org X Server 1.7.5 Release Date: 2010-02-16 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE amd64 Current Operating System: FreeBSD subie.example.com 8.1-STABLE FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #1: Wed Aug 11 14:34:19 EDT 2010 dlangille@subie.example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DVL amd64 Build Date: 12 August 2010 05:57:37PM Current version of pixman: 0.16.6 Before

This is the xorg.conf file for my RadeonHD setupt Section “ServerLayout” Option “AllowEmptyInput” “off” Identifier “X.org Configured” Screen 0 “Screen0” 0 0 InputDevice “Mouse0” “CorePointer” InputDevice “Keyboard0” “CoreKeyboard” EndSection Section “Files” ModulePath “/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/” FontPath “/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/” EndSection Section “Module” Load “extmod” Load “record” Load “dbe” Load