All I can recommend is to boot single user mode, sudo aptitude update sudo aptitude safe-upgrade sudo dpkg --configure gdm perhaps even aptitude remove gdm and aptitude install gdm then reboot into multy user mode. On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 06:10:41PM +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Have just upgraded a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision > 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. All seemed to proceed well, > but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the > screen resolution changing - I can't login! > > After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going > on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The > simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user > mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition > is also just fine. > > I've created a .xinitrc which only runs xev so I can see what keys it > is seeing. When I run with video driver as "nv" (in > /etc/X11/xorg.conf) xev is not seeing any keyboard activity. Changing > to "vga" at least I can see that xev gets the keystrokes (but the > screen is not usable). Changing to "vesa" exhibits the same behaviour > as "nv" - that is, no keys reported by xev, and any key press seems to > change the screen resolution. > > With the "nv" driver (xserver-xorg-video-nv) I can seeverything on the > screen. Mouse and menus work. Ctl-Alt-Backspace works (to terminate > X11). But most other keys simple cause this screen resolution change. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Graham > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
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