From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au>
Cc: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>, 35408@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35408: External monitor not working with GDM
Date: Thu, 02 May 2019 17:20:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y33oubmb.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877eb9mgiw.fsf@sturm.com.au> (Ben Sturmfels's message of "Thu, 02 May 2019 18:01:27 +1000")
Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> skribis:
>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>> Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> skribis:
>
>>>> [ 448.627] (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI/AMD Radeon chipsets:
>
>>> It looks like you have an AMD Radeon graphics card, is that right? Did
>>> you pass “modprobe.blacklist=radeon” on the kernel command line, or
>>> something similar?
>>>
>>> Apparently some of these AMD graphics cards are not quite supported by
>>> free software, so that might be the issue here.
>>
>> Whoops, sorry I'm being unintentionally misleading - I shuttle my hard
>> drive across from my X200 into an F2A85-M motherboard at work, which has
>> Radeon HD 8470D. It's always just worked with Slim on Guix and Trisquel
>> 7/8.
>>
>> I'll try the modprobe.blacklist though.
>
> I tried the modprobe.blacklist=radeon in the kernel line, but GDM still
> did it's looping thing.
What .desktop files to you have under /run/current-system/profile?
There was a bug whereby GDM would enter an infinite loop when no
.desktop files were provided: <https://issues.guix.info/issue/35068>.
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-02 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-24 4:25 bug#35408: External monitor not working with GDM Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-25 9:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 11:41 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-25 12:16 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-25 12:53 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-25 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-26 1:12 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-26 8:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 22:13 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-04-26 0:42 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-26 8:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-02 2:00 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-05-02 8:01 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-05-02 15:20 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2019-05-08 2:50 ` Ben Sturmfels
2020-06-11 4:01 ` Royce Strange
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