On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2 .... get me > > > > > only a black screen with no prompt. The same thing happens if I try > > > > > "console login" from kdm. inittab is the default. Graphics driver > > > > > NVidia 173.14.09. Any hints, pointers, appreciated.
[...] > > Can you switch back to X with ALT-F7 or CTRL-ALT-F7 after this happens? > > Yes, with either. OK, so we know that the driver somehow screws up switching to VGA mode, but at least it has no problem switching back to X and it does not crash your system. [...] > > If all the above fails, does ALT-SysRq still work? [...] > I don't know what ALT-SysRq is for, but nothing happened. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key (This is not relevant for tracking down your present problem, but it is handy to know in case of "hard" lock-ups.) > > Also, after an attempt to go to console, what is the output of: > > > > grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist. This is harmless. > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1 > (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0) This is harmless; you can remove the "type1" line from your /etc/X11/xorg.conf. > (WW) NVIDIA: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:1:3) found This should be harmless as well. Many graphics cards have two PCI-IDs, e.g. "VGA compatible controller" and "Display controller", and normally it does not matter if there this kind of warning about the second one. > (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0) > (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap AFAIK, this is an unrelated minor bug. No real clues so far; what do you get from the following three commands? lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|video|display|graphic' lsmod | grep -E 'agp|fb|nvidia' grep -Ei 'vesa|nvidia|frame|buffer' /var/log/syslog -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org