Hybrid Graphics

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011 09:31:38 +0000
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> On 12/01/2011 08:48, Nils Holland wrote:
> > The result is, basically, disappointing: X starts, the Xor logfile
> > actually contains stuff that looks "good", but unfortunately, I only end
> > up with a completely blank laptop screen (in the sense that the
> > backlight of the screen is on, but otherwise the screen is totally black).
> 
> Recent versions of X11 behave in this way to indicate that the display
> is working correctly.  Yes, it's pretty daft and hard to distinguish
> from various failure modes.  There's a switch you can apply to make it
> revert to the legacy gray patterned screen.
> 

Xorg -retro

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Gary Jennejohn