On Sunday 17 May 2009 13:57:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:45:16 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > On Saturday 16 May 2009 17:33:28 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > > > > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, > > > > > > > > > > > > 2 .... get me only a black screen with no prompt. > > > > > > > > > > > > The same thing happens if I try "console login" from > > > > > > > > > > > > kdm. inittab is the default. Graphics driver NVidia > > > > > > > > > > > > 173.14.09. Any hints, pointers, appreciated. > > [...] > > > > Do you see any framebuffer devices at all? > > > > > > $ ls -l /dev/fb* > > > crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2009-05-16 19:43 /dev/fb0 > > > > Nope. No fb anything in /dev.
[snip] > Unfortunately, I am not sure what to think of the missing fb device, so > can only make some very general suggestions: [snip] > > - Check the nvidia documentation for hints about this kind of problem; I > have not used the nvidia driver in more than two years, so I might be > missing something really obvious about how VT switching is supposed to > work now. Solved! I set to 0 the NVreg_UseVBios nvidia kernel module parameter; the default is 1. I read that this problem has been solved with the 180.51 driver. I'll try that one of these days, but if it ain't broke . . . . Thanks a lot for your help in all this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
