[nzlug] hardy broke me baby...

[Nevyn]

On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Robin Sheat <robin at kallisti.net.nz> wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 May 2008 16:59:30 Nevyn wrote:
>  > I've found that if I remove the driver line entirely, it does start
>  > but will not let me switch to a console with the ctrl-alt-F[whatever]
>  > combination. To get back to console I've found that I have to edit
>  Try deleting (i.e. moving to a backup) any xorg.conf* files. I had some
>  strangeness with it loading from xorg.conf.failsafe rather than what I was
>  specifying, and it was all very confusing. If you delete them all, then it'll
>  hopefully be forced to recreate them. Ideally, using the correct driver for
>  the card (VESA is a bit icky).

Just sorted it. I was only using vesa because this machine is not
really meant to be used as a work station at all though it does just
because it's easier giving some members of my family access to the
machine to browse the internet.

Anyway, I was having a play and changed the drivers to sis which is
what I was supposed to be using (although I had though that vesa was
kind of a failsafe fallback option - strange that they wouldn't be
working). This worked but in the same as before. I.e. so long as I
didn't want to switch to another terminal (seeing as I do this on a
regular basis this was no where near good enough to be carrying on
with). I found a page describing the sis drivers in detail here:
http://www.winischhofer.net/

In it, the frame buffer drivers are also noted so I decided to have a
play. Anyway, it turns out that switching was fixed after that. After
adding sisfb to /etc/modules I rebooted to test and everything is as
dandy as a dandy thing.

Regards,
Nevyn.