{"id":245,"date":"2007-02-11T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T12:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2008-06-06T01:23:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T22:23:10","slug":"ati-8325-blank-screen-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2007\/02\/11\/ati-8325-blank-screen-fix\/","title":{"rendered":"ATI-8.32.5 blank screen fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just upgraded my ATI drivers from 8.29.6 to 8.32.5,  restarted my X and was greeted with a very beautiful blank\/black screen. Playing a bit with my ModeLine in xorg.conf though I was able to make it work again.<\/p>\n<p>I just needed to change:<br \/>\n<code>Modeline \"1280x1024_75.00\"  138.54  1280 1368 1504 1728  1024 1025 1028 1069  -HSync +Vsync<\/code><\/p>\n<p>to:<br \/>\n<code>Modeline \"1280x1024_75.00\"  138.54  1280 1368 1504 1728  1024 1025 1028 1069<\/code><\/p>\n<p>This Modeline <a href=\"http:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/2006\/05\/22\/changing-resolution-to-a-tft-monitor-connected-with-dvi\/\">created by gft<\/a> makes my monitor work at 75Hz instead of the 60Hz that ddc provides to xorg.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know why but it looks like the new drivers don&#8217;t like the polarity options that the previous drivers had no problem with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s the part of my xorg.conf referring to my Monitor and Graphics Driver that currently works:<br \/>\n<code><br \/>\nSection \"Monitor\"<br \/>\n        Identifier   \"Monitor0\"<br \/>\n        VendorName   \"LG\"<br \/>\n        ModelName    \"L1970H\"<br \/>\n        HorizSync    30.0 - 83.0<br \/>\n        VertRefresh  56.0 - 75.0<br \/>\n        # 1280x1024 @ 75.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 80.17 kHz; pclk: 138.54 MHz<br \/>\n        Modeline \"1280x1024_75.00\"  138.54  1280 1368 1504 1728  1024 1025 1028 1069<br \/>\n        Option      \"DPMS\"<br \/>\nEndSection<br \/>\nSection \"Device\"<br \/>\n        Identifier  \"ATI 9500 Pro\"<br \/>\n        Driver      \"fglrx\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"no_accel\" \"no\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"no_dri\" \"no\"<br \/>\n# === misc DRI settings ===<br \/>\n        Option      \"mtrr\" \"off\" # disable DRI mtrr mapper, driver has its own code for mtrr<br \/>\n        Option      \"DesktopSetup\" \"Single\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"HSync2\" \"unspecified\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"VRefresh2\" \"unspecified\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"ScreenOverlap\" \"0\"<br \/>\n# === TV-out Management ===<br \/>\n        Option      \"ForceMonitors\" \"tmds1,notv\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"TVStandard\" \"NTSC-M\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"TVHSizeAdj\" \"0\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"TVVSizeAdj\" \"0\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"TVHPosAdj\" \"0\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"TVVPosAdj\" \"0\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"TVHStartAdj\" \"0\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"TVColorAdj\" \"0\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"GammaCorrectionI\" \"0x06419064\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"GammaCorrectionII\" \"0x00b0000b\"<br \/>\n# === OpenGL specific profiles\/settings ===<br \/>\n        Option      \"VideoOverlay\" \"on\"<br \/>\n# === OpenGL Overlay ===<br \/>\n        Option      \"OpenGLOverlay\" \"off\"<br \/>\n# === Center Mode (Laptops only) ===<br \/>\n        Option      \"CenterMode\" \"off\"<br \/>\n# === Pseudo Color Visuals (8-bit visuals) ===<br \/>\n        Option      \"PseudoColorVisuals\" \"off\"<br \/>\n# === QBS Management ===<br \/>\n        Option      \"Stereo\" \"off\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"StereoSyncEnable\" \"off\"<br \/>\n# === FSAA Management ===<br \/>\n        Option      \"UseFastTLS\" \"1\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"UseInternalAGPGART\" \"yes\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"FSAAEnable\" \"on\"<br \/>\n        Option      \"FSAAScale\" \"2\"<br \/>\n        BusID       \"PCI:1:0:0\"<br \/>\nEndSection<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>And the glxgears result:<br \/>\n<code>17418 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3483.523 FPS<br \/>\n17341 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3468.088 FPS<br \/>\n17428 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3485.311 FPS<br \/>\n17548 frames in 5.0 seconds = 3509.505 FPS<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just upgraded my ATI drivers from 8.29.6 to 8.32.5, restarted my X and was greeted with a very beautiful blank\/black screen. Playing a bit with my ModeLine in xorg.conf though I was able to make it work again. I just needed to change: Modeline &#8220;1280x1024_75.00&#8221; 138.54 1280 1368 1504 1728 1024 1025 1028 1069 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gentoo","category-linux"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":4074,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.void.gr\/kargig\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}