On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->This is a long standing problem with KDM and the nVidia drivers. They ->are binary only so nothing can be done until nVidia fixes the issue. The ->only work around is not to use KDM and just boot to a prompt..then type ->startx. After you exit your respective WM it should just return you to ->the prompt. -> <SNIP> 'fraid not. I don't use xdm/kdm/gdm. I always use "startx", but if I have to shutdown X, I get the "black screen of death". No keyboard or mouse. No Ctrl-Alt-Del. 'nuttin. Only thing I can do is re-boot. I only use Xfce-3 as my desctop. -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com SuSE 7.1 Professional Linux
What mobo do you have, might be a bios issue. I have an Abit BE6-II with softbios III. The agp port setting have a parameter for transfer: Default, Normal, and Fast. My card will act differently depending on these settings. For instance, default is supposed to let the video card drivers/chipset determine the rate and nature of the agp bus port, will normal is supposed to be the most stable. If you mobo, cpu, and agp port are set up a certain way it might cause it to act differently. -----Original Message----- From: Christopher W. Aiken [mailto:cwaiken@users.icubed.com] Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 2107 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: [SLE] nvidia problems On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->This is a long standing problem with KDM and the nVidia drivers. They ->are binary only so nothing can be done until nVidia fixes the issue. The ->only work around is not to use KDM and just boot to a prompt..then type ->startx. After you exit your respective WM it should just return you to ->the prompt. -> <SNIP> 'fraid not. I don't use xdm/kdm/gdm. I always use "startx", but if I have to shutdown X, I get the "black screen of death". No keyboard or mouse. No Ctrl-Alt-Del. 'nuttin. Only thing I can do is re-boot. I only use Xfce-3 as my desctop. -=[cwa]=- -- Christopher W. Aiken Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com www.cwaiken.com SuSE 7.1 Professional Linux -- 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
Are you sure about the 'no keyboard' bit? I have this problem too. ctrl+Fn gives me a black screen, but in my case this is just a graphical problem. mgetty is there, and if I do a 'halt' or 'reboot' it works. I can't see a thing, but after a bit the system shuts down normally. Anders On Friday 27 April 2001 04:06, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
->This is a long standing problem with KDM and the nVidia drivers. They ->are binary only so nothing can be done until nVidia fixes the issue. The ->only work around is not to use KDM and just boot to a prompt..then type ->startx. After you exit your respective WM it should just return you to ->the prompt. ->
<SNIP>
'fraid not. I don't use xdm/kdm/gdm. I always use "startx", but if I have to shutdown X, I get the "black screen of death". No keyboard or mouse. No Ctrl-Alt-Del. 'nuttin. Only thing I can do is re-boot. I only use Xfce-3 as my desctop.
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* Anders Johansson
Are you sure about the 'no keyboard' bit? I have this problem too. ctrl+Fn gives me a black screen, but in my case this is just a graphical problem. mgetty is there, and if I do a 'halt' or 'reboot' it works. I can't see a thing, but after a bit the system shuts down normally.
upgradwe to kernel 2.4.3 and then you;ll have the Alt-F1 freezes my machine. ;) Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Technical Support Jason Geosystems BV Fax +31-10.280.1511 (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.
On Sunday 29 April 2001 03:32 pm, Gerhard den Hollander wrote:
* Anders Johansson
(Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 06:10:53PM +0200) Are you sure about the 'no keyboard' bit? I have this problem too. ctrl+Fn gives me a black screen, but in my case this is just a graphical problem. mgetty is there, and if I do a 'halt' or 'reboot' it works. I can't see a thing, but after a bit the system shuts down normally.
upgradwe to kernel 2.4.3 and then you;ll have the Alt-F1 freezes my machine. ;)
Is it at 2.4.3 that the problem happens? 2.4.2 doesn't have the problem with Alt-F1 freezing the machine? That's wild.. I'll have to check that out. Too bad 2.4.2 doesn't have drivers for my USB Scanner :( Take care, Steven
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Anders Johansson
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Christopher W. Aiken
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crrey
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Gerhard den Hollander
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Steven Hatfield