On Saturday 16 May 2009 15:44:25 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 13:24:45 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > On Saturday 16 May 2009 12:05:56 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > 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. [snip]
> > > grep -Ei 'vesa|nvidia|frame|buffer' /var/log/syslog > > > > This returns nothing. > > Then your syslog must have been rotated since your last reboot; the > messages that I am interested in are written to the syslog when the > system boots up. (I am not sure if these messages will actually be > helpful to us, but we do not have much more to go on at the moment.) OK. I rebooted and ran it again. Not sure it's relevant, but: May 16 16:45:32 Ajax kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 7BF649BA, 00F4 (r3 NVIDIA MCP67-M 6040000 PTL_ F4240) May 16 16:45:32 Ajax kernel: [ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 7BF5C13A, 880C (r1 NVIDIA MCP67 6040000 MSFT 3000000) May 16 16:45:32 Ajax kernel: [ 0.084002] Security Framework initialized May 16 16:45:45 Ajax kernel: [ 26.584309] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 173.14.09 Wed Jun 4 23:43:17 PDT 2008 > Furthermore, if you run > > tail -fn0 /var/log/Xorg.0.log > > in an X terminal and switch to the (blank) console and back, you should > see several lines of new Xorg log entries. (You can use CTRL-C to stop > tailing the log once you are back at X.) Post this output here, please. (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket) (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select" (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI display change hotkey events enabled: the X server is new (II) NVIDIA(0): enough to receive ACPI display change hotkey events. (II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event8 (**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8" (--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found And, thanks for trying to track this down. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
