On Saturday 13 September 2003 01:15, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.09.12 at 23:20, Jan Elders wrote:
* cancel sax2 * goto init 5 (so, with the nvidia-XF86Config) just to try -> black screen
Instead of that, just do "startx" from the terminal (better as user, not root). Errors get printed on the console, and it's easier to kill. And, "startx fwmn" or similar is faster than kde. Hmmm, I followed your advice. After having made changes in my troublesome XF86Config in console mode, I did startx as user, and ....... got a black screen again. I could not find any other way to kill this than cutting power (which I hate to do). What do you mean by "easier to kill" ? Is there a method I'm not aware of ? CTRL-ALT-DEL doesn't work !
NOW HERE IS A STRANGE THING : When (in init 5 mode) I start sax2 from within a terminal, then I get a normal - good - sax screen. Then I cancel sax2, go down to init 3, and start sax2 in command mode, and then I get the fuzzy screen again I mentioned before.
I think that is related to this text (sax2 --help) that I posted here the other day, and that I said I do not fully understand :
[ -s | --sysconfig ] this option tell SaX2 to import the system wide config file even if SaX2 was started from a textconsole which normaly will import the SaX2 HW detection data
See? It seems that sax2 uses different data if started from a console or inside X. Well, here the -s parameter does not give any relief. Things are going worse now. I tried the sax2 -s in console mode but when I do sax2 -s or just sax2, I don't even get the 'fuzzy' sax2 screen anymore. Now I just get some green and white scramble displayed and the system doesn't react to anything anymore. So : a) the -s parameter doesn't seem to make any difference. b) I lost the 'fuzzy' screen and have garbage now. This is maybe caused by the fact that I have tried to use the NvAGP option in my XF86Config ? (without success) See my earlier posting this evening. But after that I have re-activated my 'good' nv-based XF86Config, so where would sax2 get its erroneous information from ?
BTW : sax2 from terminal within X still works normal.. <snip> I'm getting pretty puzzled by all these nvidia driver problems. ;-( Cheers, -- Jan Elders Nuenen the Netherlands