On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 12:45:16 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > On Saturday 16 May 2009 17:33:28 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > > > On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2 > > > > > > > > > > > .... get me only a black screen with no prompt. The same > > > > > > > > > > > thing happens if I try "console login" from kdm. inittab > > > > > > > > > > > is the default. Graphics driver NVidia 173.14.09. Any > > > > > > > > > > > hints, pointers, appreciated.
[...] > > Do you see any framebuffer devices at all? > > > > $ ls -l /dev/fb* > > crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2009-05-16 19:43 /dev/fb0 > > Nope. No fb anything in /dev. > [snip] [...] > I haven't rolled my own since my gentoo days. I run 2.6.26-2-686. It looks > like yours but for CONFIG_FB_BOOT_VESA_SUPPORT, which is not an option at > all. Not that it's not set - it doesn't exist in the kernel. I suspect that is normal for this older kernel. (My kernel is from the 2.6.29 series.) > If you look at > Joel Roth's post, it doesn't seem to be in his, either, and he's facing the > same problem. Is it that config that generates the fb*? Unfortunately, I am not sure what to think of the missing fb device, so can only make some very general suggestions: - In an X terminal, become root and run modprobe -v nvidiafb Does that help at all, do you get any error messages? - Check the nvidia documentation for hints about this kind of problem; I have not used the nvidia driver in more than two years, so I might be missing something really obvious about how VT switching is supposed to work now. - Try to run X with the "vesa" or the "nv" driver instead of the "nvidia" one. Does that restore the abiltity to switch to a functioning console? - Try a newer version of the kernel (from backports.org) and/or the newest version of the nvidia driver. - Try to play with the nvidia-settings tool; I would watch out for controls related to display brightness, the backlight, and (de)activation of output pipes. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
