Screen Goes Black after running Xserver

[Justin Dugger]

At least on my Ubuntu desktop machine, I can verify for you that x.org
is nice and snappy.  I don't know if Ubuntu has changed the x.org
configs at all; I suspect not, because the guy who does the Debian
packages appears to also be heavily involved with both x.org and
Ubuntu.

I haven't been able to find any specs for a Travelmate 260 although I
did find specs for a 2600.  The 2600 appears to have a fairly new ATi
card. If you're running the ATi binary drivers, a certain amount of
displeasure can be expected.  ATi seems to be improving their drivers
a lot recently, although whether they're really catching up to nvidia
in quality is another question entirely.  So definately upgrade if you
can.

On a side note: Debian 3.0 stable? You're quite accomplished to keep
that up to date with the kernel.  I'd take jclinton's advice and see
what that kernel option fixes. It also might be time to consider an
upgrade to sarge.

Justin Dugger

On 1/18/06, Jack <quiet_celt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- Linux Rocks wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > --- crash3m <crash3m at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Is this on Debian stable where you cannot switch
> > > VT's with xorg?  I'm
> > > running unstable and it has always worked for me.
> >
> > I'm running the stable version. Can I install xorg
> > along side with xfree86? Is xorg the same as X11?
> Yes and no. You can both installed, but you will
> have to choose which one to use. This is a
> configurable
> thing, that you can change.
>
> XFree86 is the original opensource implementation of
> X11 .
> Xorg is a splinter group from XFree86. They have an
> internal
> dispute in philosophy and forked off a new X11. They
> aren't identical. Xorg is susposedly lighter-weight
> and faster. I've
> not played with it, because of the VT switching
> problems I've
> had.
>
> Brian JD
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