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title="NEW - Blank screen with only mouse pointer after 7.10 radeon driver update; display does not switch to tty7 upon lightdm start; Xorg.0.log quickly grows"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105217#c14">Comment # 14</a>
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title="NEW - Blank screen with only mouse pointer after 7.10 radeon driver update; display does not switch to tty7 upon lightdm start; Xorg.0.log quickly grows"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105217">bug 105217</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:james.coulthard@verizon.net" title="james.coulthard@verizon.net">james.coulthard@verizon.net</a>
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<pre>(In reply to Mario Kleiner from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=105217#c13">comment #13</a>)
<span class="quote">> If you create a file named /etc/X11/xorg.conf
>
> with this text snippet...
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "Card0"
> Driver "ati"
> Option "DRI" "3"
> EndSection
>
> ... and restart lightdm, it should do the trick.</span >
Hi Mario,
I attempted this just now. I was able to successfully set the DRI option to 3
in Xorg. I then upgraded the radeon driver to 7.10 and rebooted.
Unfortunately, this did not help the problem. Same symptoms appeared. I
rolled back radeon driver to 7.9.
Any other suggestions?</pre>
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