Actually, it was crashing my whole system. I'd never seen that before. Ctrl-Alt-F? wouldn't work either, as everything had halted. I did manage to get it to work by changing the version of the driver I was using. I said I was using 4996 but really I was using the newer one (5230?) (I had forgotten that I downloaded both and meant to install 4996 because I knew it worked in the past.). I ran Nvidia's installer for 4996 and it uninstalled 5230 and installed 4996 and it worked.
Thanks for the suggestions John --- Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue 30 Dec 2003 at 09:56:22, john jonas said: > > 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. > > Alt-F? won't work with X, but Ctrl-Alt-F? will work. > > > Any suggestions? > > Yeah, this sounds like a modelines problem. What > size monitor do you > have? What resolutions does it run? In the Monitor > section of your > /etc/X11/XF86Config file, change the horizontal and > vertical refresh > rates to match those of your monitor. Also specify > the screen > resolution. If you don't know how to do this, then > send us your > XF86Config file and we can mark it up for you. > > -- > Soren Harward > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Free Pop-Up Blocker - Get it now http://companion.yahoo.com/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
