Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the screen resolution changing - I can't login!
After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition is also just fine. I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it is seeing. When I run with video driver as "nv" (in /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing to "vga" at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the screen is not usable). Changing to "vesa" exhibits the same behaviour as "nv" - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to change the screen resolution. With the "nv" driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. Any ideas? Thanks, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
