On Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams posted: > 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?
When you upgraded from etch to lenny did you follow the release notes for upgrading? http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes If not, have a look now and see if anything you did might have caused trouble, and then determine if there is any way you can back out gracefully and redo things. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
