X and console problems

2011-04-15 Thread maderios
Hi After changing my hardware I got problem that seems coming from X server (Squeeze Debian / stable). When I stop X session, consoles are useless. The cursor is blinking. When I type a command, it does not appear but if I hit 'enter ', it is launched. So, I can restart X or MC for example. If

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-09 Thread John W Foster
On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 00:58 -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 t

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-06 Thread Joel Roth
On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 10:14:56AM +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:58:21 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > [...] > What video card/driver are you using? > -- > Rares Aioanei The card is: lspci | grep -i radeon 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780MC [Ra

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-06 Thread Rares Aioanei
On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 00:58:21 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: [...] What video card/driver are you using? -- Rares Aioanei -- 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/20

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 08:37:55PM +0100, Angus Hedger wrote: > Hey, > > On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:20:51 -1000 > Joel Roth wrote: > > Thanks for checking this out! > > > > Console *does* VT switching correctly under a stock 2.6.31-1-amd64 > > kernel. (But for some reason suspend doesn't work... wil

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Angus Hedger
Hey, On Sat, 4 Sep 2010 01:20:51 -1000 Joel Roth wrote: > Thanks for checking this out! > > Console *does* VT switching correctly under a stock 2.6.31-1-amd64 > kernel. (But for some reason suspend doesn't work... will try a later > kernel.) > > Why didn't I think of this? Probably because the

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 07:04:58PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sb, 04 sep 10, 09:06:23, Stephen Powell wrote: > > > > Nice work, Andrei! > > Not fair, you did the heavy lifting :) Both deserving of a beer, if not a pizza as well, to be collectible at some future FTF. -j > Regards, > Andr

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sb, 04 sep 10, 09:06:23, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Nice work, Andrei! Not fair, you did the heavy lifting :) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic signature.asc Description: Digital si

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:35:28 -0400 (EDT), Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 03 sep 10, 16:54:25, Joel Roth wrote: >> >> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 >> drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0 >> drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 >> drmOpenDevice: open result is 11,

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Sep 04, 2010 at 01:35:28PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Vi, 03 sep 10, 16:54:25, Joel Roth wrote: > > > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > > drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0 > > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > > drmOpenDevice: open result is

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-04 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Vi, 03 sep 10, 16:54:25, Joel Roth wrote: > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:05.0 > drmOpenDevice: node name is /dev/dri/card0 > drmOpenDevice: open result is 11, (OK) > drmOpenByBusid: drmOpenMinor returns 11 > drmOpenByBusid: drmGetB

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 08:35:30PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> Aha! failed to load firmware! That may be your problem. You should > >> always follow up on such m

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 17:32:12 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> Aha! failed to load firmware! That may be your problem. You should >> always follow up on such messages. Do you have package >> firmware-linux-nonfree >> installed?

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 05:11:29PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:59 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > > > FWIW, here is my dmesg output regarding my ATI Radeon 3100 chip (RS780MC). > > I wonder about the 'loading firmware' bit, which seems to fail. > > > > [ 1478.948761

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:57:59 -0400 (EDT), Joel Roth wrote: > > FWIW, here is my dmesg output regarding my ATI Radeon 3100 chip (RS780MC). > I wonder about the 'loading firmware' bit, which seems to fail. > > [ 1478.833236] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 > [ 1478.934354] [drm] radeon kernel

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:22:17PM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > 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 charac

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Stephen Powell
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

Re: sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
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

sid: Console problems after starting X

2010-09-03 Thread Joel Roth
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 b

serial console problems

2001-12-30 Thread Lev Lvovsky
I'd like to get a serial console working on my debian (unstable) box working, so that I can test various network setups on it w/o fear of breaking the connection. in my lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 serial=0,9600n8 image=/boot/2.2.

Console problems

2001-01-06 Thread Stefan Bellon
to have fixed by now), but the problem was that I couldn't fix it locally on the console, but I had to do it remotely via telnet. Does anybody know what is causing me those console problems and how I can solve them? Thanks in advance. Greetings, Stefan. -- Stefan Bellon * <mailto:[EMAI

Re: Console problems...

2000-04-20 Thread Troy Telford
Just wanted to say that is EXACTLY what I needed! Thanks. What happened was my /etc/syslog.conf file was missing... somehow. I have a friend with the same version of Debian, so I just copied his over - and without editing *poof* everything worked fine! Of course, I will at least look through it

Re: Console problems...

2000-04-20 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> not being written - in fact, the log messages are displayed to the text > console... for instance, when I log into a regular text-console (non-X), > is /etc/syslog.conf setup correctly? there you define where to log to. i don't know, how on debian, but suse logs to /var/log/messages - without an

Console problems...

2000-04-20 Thread Troy Telford
OK, here's my problem: I'm currently running the Woody release, and have managed to cause a rather interesting problem: Although my syslogd and klogd daemons are running at startup, the system logs themselves are not being written - in fact, the log messages are displayed to the text console...