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Offline Kot_enjoyer

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Screen issues after installing video drivers
« on: May 22, 2022, 05:53:48 AM »
I've recently installed coreplus on my old asus eee 700. Then I tried to install xf86-intel-video driver and my screen turned in the corrupted mess in the pic. Even the tty is unusable. It's just two dots on a black screen. Rebooting, installing Xorg-7.7-bin, and setting screen resolution to 800x480 (native resolution) didn't do anything.
Can I salvage it without reinstalling?
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Offline Juanito

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Re: Screen issues after installing video drivers
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2022, 06:16:29 AM »
Check onboot.lst, remove everything except Xvesa, flwm, aterm and wbar and reboot.

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Re: Screen issues after installing video drivers
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2022, 06:58:08 AM »
Check onboot.lst, remove everything except Xvesa, flwm, aterm and wbar and reboot.
That worked, thanks.
Should I install some other driver or is the generic one fine?
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this is kind of weird.
If I install the driver in the tty in works fine and even sets the resolution to the correct one but the moment I switch to the graphical desktop it becomes corrupted.
« Last Edit: May 22, 2022, 07:05:24 AM by Kot_enjoyer »

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Re: Screen issues after installing video drivers
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2022, 07:14:50 AM »
If you want to use xf86-video-intel, you need to replace Xvesa with Xorg-7.7.

They need to be loaded before starting the gui.
« Last Edit: May 22, 2022, 07:16:42 AM by Juanito »

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Re: Screen issues after installing video drivers
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2022, 07:51:51 AM »
I've put Xorg-7.7-bin.tcz and xf86-video-intel.tcz  and removed Xvesa in onboot.lst but it still boots in the tty

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Re: Screen issues after installing video drivers
« Reply #5 on: May 22, 2022, 08:20:49 AM »
Not Xorg-7.7-bin, Xorg-7.7

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Re: Screen issues after installing video drivers
« Reply #6 on: May 22, 2022, 08:26:53 AM »
I see. Now everything works.