> > The last time I had this problem the solution was an XFree package > > tweaked for NVidia. Does such a package exist now? > > No need, officials testing/sid XFree packages work fine here (PB G4 > 1,33GHz).
Right, that's what I thought, which makes my problem all the more mystifying. It turns out it's not actually a crash -- if I'm ssh'd in from another machine I do stay connected, so I've learned at least that K01gdm is hanging. But once the screen goes dead, there's no recovering it, and since K01gdm never exits, the rest of the shutdown scripts never get to run. > BTW: You can suspend-to-disk the PB with swsusp patches, search archives. I'd thought this was just for ATI and not nVidia but I see there are two different threads going here. That's nice. I'd like to get this console problem sorted out before I start mucking with that, because I suspect the same problem will arise if I try suspend, and it will be impossible to debug. O.
