Hybrid Graphics

[Matthew Seaman]

On 12/01/2011 08:48, Nils Holland wrote:
> The result is, basically, disappointing: X starts, the Xor logfile
> actually contains stuff that looks "good", but unfortunately, I only end
> up with a completely blank laptop screen (in the sense that the
> backlight of the screen is on, but otherwise the screen is totally black).

Recent versions of X11 behave in this way to indicate that the display
is working correctly.  Yes, it's pretty daft and hard to distinguish
from various failure modes.  There's a switch you can apply to make it
revert to the legacy gray patterned screen.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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