On 5/31/2012 1:59 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
Hi, Gedalya wrote:Tried removing the nvidia stuff and booting up with nouveau.[...]Total system hang as soon as xorg starts. No response from keyboard, mouse, no response on the network (no ping, no ARP response)[...]Using an Nvidia GeForce GT 520.Do I understand correctly that the system works fine until X starts (e.g., if you use the "text" kernel command line option)?
Yes. As long as X doesn't start it seems rock solid.
Does X with the fbdev driver work? (You can test by putting the following in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.) Section "Device" Identifier "geforce" Driver "fbdev" EndSection
Yes. This does work. BTW driver "vesa" hangs the same.
Does starting X with the nouveau driver work if you do not start a GNOME session? (You can test by running "startx xterm" if the xinit package is installed.)
Interesting. Still working on this one. startx was complaining something about xorg.conf so I just renamed it, and then it started up. Pretty frozen at this point, no keyboard, only reset button helps, but I do get network response - there is ping, initial ssh response but nothing more, can't actually log in.
Thanks for a clear report. Hope that helps, Jonathan