/* Quoth john jonas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 30 Dec 2003 at 09:56 -0800 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> */
> I recently installed debian and everything's working, > except for X. when gdm starts it just brings up a > blank black screen and stops. I can't use alt-fx to > change consoles and nothing else responds. Sounds like a lockup. Have you tried magic sysrq key sequences? > I have an nvidia graphics card and compiled the 4996 > version of their driver for my 2.4.23 kernel. Are you using the nvidia-kernel-source package for this, or did you get it directly from nvidia? Try it the other way, in either case. (I just did it this morning from nvidia's site to get the most recent version (5328), but I usually do the nvidia-kernel-source way.) Have you tried other kernels? I haven't tried with kernel 2.4.23, but I have with 2.4.22 (and I'm now running 2.6.0 thanks to patches at http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html ), and haven't had trouble. What chipset? If it's a riva make sure to turn off the riva framebuffer in your kernel config. -- Hans Fugal | De gustibus non disputandum est. http://hans.fugal.net/ | Debian, vim, mutt, ruby, text, gpg http://gdmxml.fugal.net/ | WindowMaker, gaim, UTF-8, RISC, JS Bach --------------------------------------------------------------------- GnuPG Fingerprint: 6940 87C5 6610 567F 1E95 CB5E FC98 E8CD E0AA D460
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