On 11/14/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This seems like a newb question. I've been using my Gentoo for a few years
now, and since X/KDE/Gnome/etc. never seemed to be quite stable, I always
booted into command lines and then manually 'startx' JICSH.
But I find myself almost always doing that these days, so I suppose it's
time to make the plunge so that X starts when I boot up. I'm still a bit
worried about hibernation (which I don't have working anyways - yet), I
recall there were issues with nvidia and suspending to HD/RAM if you were in
X. That could be old news?
For me, suspend-to-ram works better from X than from a console, using
the proprietary drivers. In fact if I suspend from a console, the
graphics card will fail to resume correctly.
Suspend-to-disk may or may not work better for you from X. Neither of
my systems are working with STD currently...
Anyways, I can't get this to work. When I boot up, the screen is BLACK. Not
just back-lit black, but like there's no power black. If I CTRL+ALT+1, I get
to a shell prompt.
Hmm, is this a laptop? X/Nvidia can sometimes decide to drive only
the external video instead of the LCD, which appears as the symptoms
you describe. I guess this could also happen on a desktop if the
graphics card has multiple outputs.
Anyway, on the console, run "ps auwx | grep X" and make sure that X is
running. Also check /var/log/kdm.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log for
error messages.
-Richard
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