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ZeroTruths

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Registered: 2009-07-02

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[SOLVED] Display error after updating

Adding to the confusion that's come with this round of updates, it would seem that my laptop's display is no longer working.
Whenever I start the Xorg server, all the screen displays is pure white.

This didn't happen until just after I finished updating my system (which had a few minor quirks of it's own, but were sorted out. Aka, I had to manually update package-query).

Any ideas? How should I go about this?

[EDIT] Forgot to give my system settings. I'm dual-booting Windows 7 & Arch on a HP Pavillion dv5t cto 1000 that has an ATI Radeon 3450. 80GB hard drive, 2 GB RAM.

Last edited by ZeroTruths (2010-06-27 20:58:05)

JohnVV

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Registered: 2009-09-30

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Re: [SOLVED] Display error after updating

Any ideas? How should I go about this?

ideas , yes a fix ???

it would seam that your graphics chip dose not have a driver for the new xorg
search the forum and also over at LinuxQuestions
Arch is not the only distro with this issue .

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ZeroTruths

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Registered: 2009-07-02

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Re: [SOLVED] Display error after updating

Well, I ended up using the xf86-video-ati package over xf86-video-radeonhd, and that seemed to do the trick.