On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hello all, > > Here's what happening. > > After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide) > > After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?) > > A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7 > still gets me back to X) > > This problem appeared soon after converting to > dependency-based boot process using insserv. > > I've been using a self-compiled amd64 kernel with 32-bit userland. > No such problems before insserv. > > Thanks for any possible leads. I have no idea where to > even start.
Yeah, that happened to me too, a while ago. It's the X driver. Specifically, it's the KMS settings that are messing you up. I hate KMS. It does solve certain problems for developers, but causes other problems for users. Maybe in a few years all these KMS-related bugs will get sorted out. But for now, they are a pain. How to fix it depends on your chipset. In one case, I had an nvidia card, and the upgrade switched me from the nv driver to the nouveau driver. I could get around it by blacklisting the nouveau driver and creating an explicit /etc/X11/xorg.conf file that specifies driver = "nv" in the appropriate place. For other chipsets, such as Intel, you may be able to set a module parameter like "kms=0", or some such thing. Search the internet for your card manufacturer, Linux, and KMS, and maybe you'll find something. These techniques are only a temporary stopgap measure. Eventually, there will be no option. You will either have to use KMS or not use an X server at all. Oh joy. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1744286447.595363.1283545337251.javamail.r...@md01.wow.synacor.com
