Bug#444223: xserver-xorg-video-ati: RS480 (radeon express X200G series): display goes to sleep after upgrade to latest unstable/sid

Fri Sep 28 00:00:21 PDT 2007

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 08:29 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> 
> > >> Does it help if you disable DRI?
> > >>     Option "DRI" "off"
> > >> in the Device section should do the trick.
> > >>     
> 
> > Do you have ssh access from another machine? If so, 'DISPLAY=:0 xrandr
> > ...' should work (with 6.7.19x at least).
> 
> Hmmm.. how do I get through authentication?

It should 'just work' when you're logged in. If it doesn't, try stopping
the display manager and running something like

xinit $(which xrandr)

from ssh.

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