Received Thu 09 Apr 2009 9:12pm +1000 from Thorny: > 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.
Thanks Thorny. Yes I did follow the release notes in upgrading and have been trawling through the upgrade-lenny.script file and my wajig log for clues. Trying to purge various X and friends and reinstalling (and trying to stay with stable rather than testing or sid because this is a test upgrade for a bunch of servers deployed in production)..... no luck yet. Regards, Graham -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
