Received Fri 10 Apr 2009 6:31am +1000 from Florian Kulzer:
Thanks for the suggestions Florian. More details below.
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote:
> > Have just upgraded
>
> To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid?
>From etch to lenny, as per Subject.
> > a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision
> > 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip.
>
> Which chipset is it? Post the output of
>
> lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|graphic|display'
07:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV43GL [Quadro FX
550] [10de:014d] (rev a2)
> > 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.
>
> Post the output of these three commands:
>
> awk '/Section.*"InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection
> grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" does not exist.
(WW) The directory "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType" does not
exist.
(WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
(WW) NV(0): Failed to set up write-combining range (0xc8000000,0x8000000)
> grep -Ei 'keyboard' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(**) |-->Input Device "Generic Keyboard"
(II) Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Generic Keyboard: always reports core events
(**) Generic Keyboard: Protocol: standard
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbModel: "pc104"
(**) Generic Keyboard: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Generic Keyboard: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) evaluating device (Generic Keyboard)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD)
>
> (You can do this in single user mode because the Xorg log from the
> previous start of X should still be present as long as GDM has not been
> restarted.)
>
> --
> Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
> Florian |
Regards,
Graham
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