El Sábado, 3 de Noviembre de 2007, Chris escribió: > On Friday 02 November 2007, Daren Beattie wrote: > > Thank you for making this live CD! I was eager to give it a test run and > > see the work that's been done, but when I boot the CD, I run into a > > problem at the point where it starts KDM. There is a bunch of disk > > activity, but the screen goes blank and remains blank indefinitely. > > Furthermore, the system does not accept keyboard input (at least there is > > no response to known commands such as Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+Bksp). I > > was able to access the running system using SSH. From there, if I stop > > KDM, I can see a flashing cursor on the screen where you would expect to > > see the command prompt. There is no text, just a cursor. I can type > > commands, but can't see the text that I type (or the output), just a > > cursor. The same is true for all > > pseudo-terminals. > > > > Looking at the xorg.conf (through the SSH connection which gives me good > > CLI access to the system), all appears well--my monitor and display > > adapter were correctly identified and are given appropriate settings. But > > once X tries to start, the display is hosed. > > > > For reference, here's some hardware specs: > > AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.1GHz, 32-bit) > > nVidia n-Force 2 motherboard chipset > > nVidia geForce 6800GS (AGP, 256MB RAM) > > 1GB PC2700 system memory (2x512MB) > > 2 SATA HDDs, 1 ATAPI optical drive, 1 3.5" floppy drive > > Hauppauge TV tuner (not used, but detected by the kernel and drivers are > > automatically loaded at boot time) > > Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS > > PS/2 keyboard and mouse > > For what it's worth, I had the same problem: kde starts but the screen > never comes up and swithching to console is not possible. I did not think > of trying to kill x with Ctrl-alt-Backspace though... > > Chris > > -- > C. Hurschler Do you have the same hardware? if not could you detail it and follow instructions I gave Daren? Thanks. -- Raúl Sánchez Siles ----->Proud Debian user<----- Linux registered user #416098
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