Leaving X disabling monitors

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Stubb

Hi,

I am having an issue escaping X. When I run xorg whether the basic test with the green xterms or with a full gnome install I can't seem to exit them. I have used linux for a long time now and am very familiar and fond of being able to switch out to a virutal terminal with ctrl-alt Fn to run something, or more often than not, kill a frozen X session by ctrl-c on F1. But when trying to switch to a virtual terminal both screens go to sleep (the monitors go inactive) while the computer stays running and I'm forced to hard-reboot.

I'm using a radeon card, which I expect isn't helping, and have not yet successfully configured the screens for proper dual head display as without being able to safely kill X tinkering with the xorg.conf file to get them working is too time-consuming.

Thanks for any help in advance!
 
Sorry, I should have read more before I posted.

It seems this is due to the poor support of radeon cards.

I've had just as many issues with them on linux.

For a while I've been considering switching to a couple cheap cards so I could support more monitors and have less issues with drivers. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations in terms of cards with good compatibility track records.

Thanks,
 
Which Radeon card, exactly? Radeons up to the 4000 series are pretty well supported, although it's not by a vendor-supplied driver. OTOH, it's an open-source driver, so you're not dependent on the vendor to fix or update it.

Make sure you have
Code: 
WITHOUT_NOUVEAU=yes
in /etc/make.conf, and update your ports to get the latest xorg and drivers.

Please post your xorg.conf and a link to the Xorg.0.log.
 
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