Re: [SLE] Fwd: Re: nVidia driver problem on Linux
I too am running the newest nvidia drivers, and am experiencing something I don't quite understand completely. It may be a "bug" or an Operator Error (P.L.B.C.A.K.). I can use ALT+F2 to switch to a another console (In KDE), but when I try to switch back with ALT+F1 All I see is the messages on a black console (My X-session doesn't come back up). Now I can use CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC to end the x-session but That closes all open tasks. I suspect that my trouble is ignorance of the proper proceedure to return to the x-session after switching consoles. Anyways heres the data. 800MHz P-3 128 MB 133MHz RAM Viper 770 w/ 32 MB 7.1 Pro X-4.0.3 KDE-2.1.1 Nvidia's latest drivers installed as directed by site. Ambrosius
Steven Hatfield wrote:
Hello all, > Recently on this list, we talked about a nasty bug, possibly with nVidia's > driver. The bug is reproducible, and goes something like this: > > You start up your computer, and you get the KDM login screen. You log in, do > a few things, and log back out to the KDM screen. At this point, if you press > CTRL-ALT-F1 through F6 to get a virtual terminal, the screen sometimes locks > up, and only gives you a black screen, possibly with a non-moving mouse > pointer in the middle. This also happens sometimes when you choose "Exit to > Console" in the "Shutdown" menu in the KDM. > > It has been my experience that I can ssh into the machine and reboot it > remotely when it goes all black, but if I attempt to CTRL-ALT-Backspace to > get out of X altogether, the entire machine locks up. > > Also, most of the time when I choose "reboot" from the "Shutdown" menu, the > screen goes all colorful, and I can see it changing, but it's definitely not > the text based shutdown messages that I'm used to. > > I have sent this information to nVidia, and have received a response, asking > for more information. Anyone that is having this problem, please reply to me, > and send me your machine's hard/software configuration, any settings that > might be relevant to the bug, and any other information that you feel might > be helpful in the folks over at nVidia in figuring out what the trouble is. > > In return, I'll forward any more information that I get from nVidia. > > Thanks, and have a great day! :)
I'm one of the victims of this bug. Two others have posted here and a third person who doesn't care about it have confirmed it.
It seems to be necessary to be running either kdm or xdm; running the Gnome login manager gdm averts the bug. It doesn't happen on first login, only second login. During the first login it's possible to get to a virtual terminal. I don't think it happens with startx either. But if you shut down (either real shutdown or reboot) after the first login, you don't see the termination messages even though you get an otherwise clean shutdown.
By the way, I've found that if on second login you go to a virtual terminal and get the frozen system, you can get back your screen with Ctl-Alt-F7.
So far I have not heard of anyone who's running kdm and the Nvidia 1251 drivers, on this list at least, who can get to a virtual terminal on second login. Ben Rosenberg, who didn't believe that the drivers were defective, tried the experiment and got the same result.
The one (unlikely) possibility that hasn't been checked out is that the bug is somehow peculiar to SuSE distributions. After all, all of us are running SuSE of some flavor, which is why we're on this newslist.
Paul
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Harold, Try Ctrl + Alt + F7 which is where your X session lives..not F1 :) Regards, * Harold ! (ambrosius1972@hotmail.com) [010602 03:04]: -> I can use ALT+F2 to switch to a another console (In KDE), ->but when I try to switch back with ALT+F1 All I see is the messages on a ->black console (My X-session doesn't come back up). Now I can use ->CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC to end the x-session but That closes all open tasks. I ->suspect that my trouble is ignorance of the proper proceedure to return to ->the x-session after switching consoles. Anyways heres the data. -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Harold ! wrote:
I too am running the newest nvidia drivers, and am experiencing something I don't quite understand completely. It may be a "bug" or an Operator Error (P.L.B.C.A.K.). I can use ALT+F2 to switch to a another console (In KDE), but when I try to switch back with ALT+F1 All I see is the messages on a black console (My X-session doesn't come back up). Now I can use CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC to end the x-session but That closes all open tasks. I suspect that my trouble is ignorance of the proper proceedure to return to the x-session after switching consoles. Anyways heres the data. Just a thought - Please excuse me if I have misunderstood the situation, but the X-Session is on ALT+F7, not ALT+F1 - ALT+F1 is just the controlling tty.
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The Purple Tiger wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Harold ! wrote:
I too am running the newest nvidia drivers, and am experiencing something I don't quite understand completely. It may be a "bug" or an Operator Error (P.L.B.C.A.K.). I can use ALT+F2 to switch to a another console (In KDE), but when I try to switch back with ALT+F1 All I see is the messages on a black console (My X-session doesn't come back up). Now I can use CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC to end the x-session but That closes all open tasks. I suspect that my trouble is ignorance of the proper proceedure to return to the x-session after switching consoles. Anyways heres the data. Just a thought - Please excuse me if I have misunderstood the situation, but the X-Session is on ALT+F7, not ALT+F1 - ALT+F1 is just the controlling tty.
Correction to the correction: it's Alt-Ctl-F1 for the console, Alt-Ctl-F7 for the X session. Paul
On Sunday 03 June 2001 04:30, you wrote:
The Purple Tiger wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jun 2001, Harold ! wrote:
I too am running the newest nvidia drivers, and am experiencing something I don't quite understand completely. It may be a "bug" or an Operator Error (P.L.B.C.A.K.). I can use ALT+F2 to switch to a another console (In KDE), but when I try to switch back with ALT+F1 All I see is the messages on a black console (My X-session doesn't come back up). Now I can use CTRL+ALT+BCKSPC to end the x-session but That closes all open tasks. I suspect that my trouble is ignorance of the proper proceedure to return to the x-session after switching consoles. Anyways heres the data.
Just a thought - Please excuse me if I have misunderstood the situation, but the X-Session is on ALT+F7, not ALT+F1 - ALT+F1 is just the controlling tty.
Correction to the correction: it's Alt-Ctl-F1 for the console, Alt-Ctl-F7 for the X session.
Paul
Correction to the correction to the correction: when you're in a text console, you don't need to press ctrl. alt-F7 will bring you to X Regards Anders
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