Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 11:30pm +1000 from Thorny: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:44:42 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > > > Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: > >> On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > >> > >> > Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision > >> > 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, > >> > but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the > >> > screen resolution changing - I can't login! > >> > > >> > After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going > >> > on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The > >> > simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. > >> > Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is > >> > also just fine. > >> > > >> > I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it > >> > is seeing. When I run with video driver as "nv" (in > >> > /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing > >> > to "vga" at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the > >> > screen is not usable). Changing to "vesa" exhibits the same behaviour > >> > as "nv" - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to > >> > change the screen resolution. > >> > > >> > With the "nv" driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the > >> > screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate > >> > X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. > >> > > >> > Any ideas? > >> > >> When you upgraded from etch to lenny did you follow the release notes > >> for upgrading? > >> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes If not, have a look > >> now and see if anything you did might have caused trouble, and then > >> determine if there is any way you can back out gracefully and redo > >> things. > > > > Thanks Thorny. Yes I did follow the release notes in upgrading and have > > been trawling through the upgrade-lenny.script file and my wajig log for > > clues. Trying to purge various X and friends and reinstalling (and trying > > to stay with stable rather than testing or sid because this is a test > > upgrade for a bunch of servers deployed in production)..... no luck yet. > > > > "Trying to stay with stable rather than..." Were you trying to do a > dist-upgrade with "testing" and "unstable" repositories in your sources > list? You would probably be better advised to switch to codename, lenny in > your sources list and/or not have testing or unstable available. Perhaps I > misunderstood what you wrote but you may now have a mixed system which > might not be trivial to recover from. Are you sure you followed the > release notes correctly.
There is no testing/unstable. Install done from DVD (5.0.0) whilst server was standalone. The only entries in sources.list are the 5 DVDs. I followed the release notes carefully, and used the "script" command to record the process. Thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
