[Xorg-driver-geode] Black blank screen when using geode driver

[Jordan Crouse]

On 30/05/08 15:29 +0200, Arrigo Marchiori wrote:
> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 09:16:29AM +0200, Yair Poleg wrote:
> 
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > For the last few days i'm trying to get Xorg to use the geode driver with no
> > success.
> [...]
> > 
> > More platform details:
> > * Its a panel-pc made by IEI, model AFL-07A with 7" TFT screen.
> 
> Maybe you need to tell the driver that you have a panel, instead of
> another kind of monitor. The log file you attached shows that the
> driver is not sending its output to a panel.

Exactly! :)

> Try to add the following line inside the "Device" section of your
> xorg.conf:
> 
>   Option      "Panel Geometry" "800x600"
> 
> replacing "800x600" with your resolution.

This is the "emergency" method - the preferred method for those who are
using traditional BIOSen (i.e. - not coreboot or OpenFirmware), is to
enable the panel in the BIOS - there should be an option in the config
screen somewhere to do that.  Failing that, the above option is a
reasonable alternative, though it requires you to have a xorg.conf which
isn't popular these days in the modern distributions.

Jordan

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Jordan Crouse
Systems Software Development Engineer 
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.