I'm using KDM and Nvidia drivers....w/o any apparent problems... What kind of problems? MIke ------------------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike@emc.com x6033 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket. -----Original Message----- From: Paul Abrahams [mailto:abrahams@acm.org] Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 6:12 PM To: SuSE listserve Subject: Re: [SLE] 2.4.5/nVidia dids wrote:
Similar : Im using std 2.4.5 from kernel.org, I just recompiled them and they worked fine
Does the 2.4.5 kernel solve the long-outstanding problems with using KDM and the NVidia drivers? Paul -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
On Monday 02 July 2001 08:35 am, Cleary_Mike@emc.com wrote:
I'm using KDM and Nvidia drivers....w/o any apparent problems... What kind of problems?
MIke ------------------------------------------------------ Cleary_Mike@emc.com x6033 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket.
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Abrahams [mailto:abrahams@acm.org] Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 6:12 PM To: SuSE listserve Subject: Re: [SLE] 2.4.5/nVidia
dids wrote:
Similar : Im using std 2.4.5 from kernel.org, I just recompiled them and they worked fine
Does the 2.4.5 kernel solve the long-outstanding problems with using KDM and the NVidia drivers?
Paul
The problems are that the machine sometimes soft locks, and sometimes hard locks (ie. keyboard/mouse/video stop responding, but sometimes you can log in remotely and do a soft reboot). How I get this condition is to log into KDM from a fresh reboot, move a few windows around (do a few little things), and then log out of KDE. Then log back in via KDM, and then press ctrl-alt-F1, to go to a virtual terminal. Sometimes it doesn't happen right away, but usually after a few times of doing this, I'll get a weird colored screen, and I'll see the X mouse pointer in the middle, but moving the mouse will not move it. The keyboard becomes locked up (numlock/capslock keys do not affect the lights) and I have to reboot in order to recover. Can you get this to happen? Thanks, Steven
Steven Hatfield wrote:
How I get [the Nvidia hangups] is to log into KDM from a fresh reboot, move a few windows around (do a few little things), and then log out of KDE. Then log back in via KDM, and then press ctrl-alt-F1, to go to a virtual terminal. Sometimes it doesn't happen right away, but usually after a few times of doing this, I'll get a weird colored screen, and I'll see the X mouse pointer in the middle, but moving the mouse will not move it. The keyboard becomes locked up (numlock/capslock keys do not affect the lights) and I have to reboot in order to recover.
I've always been able to recover with Alt-Ctl-F7 (or Ctl-Alt-F7 if you prefer). Does that not work for you? (Of course it doesn't solve the underlying misbehavior.) Paul
On Monday 02 July 2001 10:43 am, Paul Abrahams wrote:
Steven Hatfield wrote:
How I get [the Nvidia hangups] is to log into KDM from a fresh reboot, move a few windows around (do a few little things), and then log out of KDE. Then log back in via KDM, and then press ctrl-alt-F1, to go to a virtual terminal. Sometimes it doesn't happen right away, but usually after a few times of doing this, I'll get a weird colored screen, and I'll see the X mouse pointer in the middle, but moving the mouse will not move it. The keyboard becomes locked up (numlock/capslock keys do not affect the lights) and I have to reboot in order to recover.
I've always been able to recover with Alt-Ctl-F7 (or Ctl-Alt-F7 if you prefer). Does that not work for you? (Of course it doesn't solve the underlying misbehavior.)
Paul
That *sometimes* works for me.. but most of the time it doesn't, because my keyboard is locked :( I hope they fix this soon. -Steven
On Mon, 2 Jul 2001, Steven Hatfield wrote:
On Monday 02 July 2001 10:43 am, Paul Abrahams wrote:
I've always been able to recover with Alt-Ctl-F7 (or Ctl-Alt-F7 if you prefer). Does that not work for you? (Of course it doesn't solve the underlying misbehavior.)
That *sometimes* works for me.. but most of the time it doesn't, because my keyboard is locked :(
Can you access the box remotely, via telnet/ssh or something? I've had this happen a lot this weekend, and I found that the lock-ups are when KDM has died - so loggin in as root and do "kdm &" at the command line unlocks it again. J. | John Patterson / Jarel on Snowplains (telnet to snowplains.org 3456) | | Email: jarel@snowplains.org | Web: http://snowplains.org/~jarel/ |
Cleary_Mike@emc.com wrote:
I'm using KDM and Nvidia drivers....w/o any apparent problems... What kind of problems?
Try logging out, logging in again, and then going to a virtual console with Alt-Ctl-F2. (Hint: you can recover from the resulting mess with Alt-Ctl-F7.) Note that the problem shows up only on the *second* login, not on the first one. All this assumes you're using the drivers from Nvidia (named nvidia), not the ones from XFree (named nv). Paul
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