Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-r128 package

  1. Bug #22976
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 22976

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Joakim Larsson (joakim-bildrulle) wrote :

As far as I can tell from my recent experiences the black screen means that the ATI r128 drivers uses the VGA output instead of the builtin CRT. I speculate that this is a PC inheritance. The VGA output is well hidden under a hatch at the back, on my 400 MHz grape iMac DV at least, so I attached a VGA screen there. The X output nicelly appeared on the VGA screen only.The framebuffer driver used before X is up outputs console on both outputs. Unfortunality a bug:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-ati/+bug/63072

inhibits the UseFBDev option wich has to be turned to "false" in the xorg.conf and the Monitor options doesn't seem to have any effect.