trouble with VESA xserver (was Re: Trouble installing Debian on Atom D410)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 10:25:20AM -0400, Dave Mason wrote:
> So I've figured out that text mode works fine, and the appropriate xorg 
> server seems to be vesa, but the video I get from X seems to be so off 
> the mark that the monitor (a i-inc 1920x1200 ih282) says there's no 
> signal and goes into sleep mode.
>
> The frustrating (though fortunate) thing is that the Debian install  
> worked fine in graphical install.  But the USB key install environment  
> is weird enough that I can't figure out how to duplicate it.  I don't  
> actually need great results at the moment as I just need it to debug my 
> mythtv environment, but I will probably have a similar machine in the 
> living room, so I'd like to figure it out eventually.
>
> gdm seems to run OK except for shutting the screen down (it shows up on 
> ps).  I did the "Xorg -configure" thing, but no difference.

Well the graphical install probably uses a very minimal video mode
(likely 640x480x16 vga).

Other than by checking /var/log/Xorg.0.log there is not much to do to
figure out why the display doesn't like the output being generated.

Which video chip?  Which X driver?  Which video mode?

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Len Sorensen
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