Hi,
I have installed 10.1-RELEASE to an external USB disk (gpt) on an Apple iMac (ca. 2011). Video card is a Radeon HD 6650 (which isn't mentioned in the hardware matrix). Base system works beautifully. The problem is the xorg server. When I start it up without a configuration file, my screen is split in a bizarre fashion: what should be the right side of the screen shows up at the left margin. There is a picture and description of the same problem (unfortunately no solution) at unix stackexchange. When I try to configure xorg via the
I deleted all references to cards, devices, screens > 0 in the generated Xorg.conf file, which is now pretty minimal, but the problem persists.
On pastebin:
my xorg.conf
and Xorg.0.log
I don't know if it's important, but I boot via EFI. Since Xorg basically works (all elements on the screen are functional, I can click menus, widgets, etc.), I hope that this is a simple configuration issue, but after much searching, I haven't found a solution yet (part of the problem being that I find it hard to imagine what would be a good keyword to describe this distortion - "split screen" is something different, obviously). I would be grateful for hints.
I have installed 10.1-RELEASE to an external USB disk (gpt) on an Apple iMac (ca. 2011). Video card is a Radeon HD 6650 (which isn't mentioned in the hardware matrix). Base system works beautifully. The problem is the xorg server. When I start it up without a configuration file, my screen is split in a bizarre fashion: what should be the right side of the screen shows up at the left margin. There is a picture and description of the same problem (unfortunately no solution) at unix stackexchange. When I try to configure xorg via the
Xorg -configure
command, I get the error message:
Code:
number of created screens does not match number of detected device
I deleted all references to cards, devices, screens > 0 in the generated Xorg.conf file, which is now pretty minimal, but the problem persists.
On pastebin:
my xorg.conf
and Xorg.0.log
I don't know if it's important, but I boot via EFI. Since Xorg basically works (all elements on the screen are functional, I can click menus, widgets, etc.), I hope that this is a simple configuration issue, but after much searching, I haven't found a solution yet (part of the problem being that I find it hard to imagine what would be a good keyword to describe this distortion - "split screen" is something different, obviously). I would be grateful for hints.
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