Re: No console from X
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 14:33:32 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> On Friday 15 May 2009 13:34:45 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > > On Thu,14.May.09, 20:57:29, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> > > > > I can't get to a console from X. I.e., alt-ctrl-f1, 2 .... get me
> > > > > only a black screen with no prompt. The same thing happens if I try
> > > > > "console login" from kdm. inittab is the default. Graphics driver
> > > > > NVidia 173.14.09. Any hints, pointers, appreciated.
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> > Can you switch back to X with ALT-F7 or CTRL-ALT-F7 after this happens?
>
> Yes, with either.
OK, so we know that the driver somehow screws up switching to VGA mode,
but at least it has no problem switching back to X and it does not
crash your system.
[...]
> > If all the above fails, does ALT-SysRq still work?
[...]
> I don't know what ALT-SysRq is for, but nothing happened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key
(This is not relevant for tracking down your present problem, but it is
handy to know in case of "hard" lock-ups.)
> > Also, after an attempt to go to console, what is the output of:
> >
> > grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
This is harmless.
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module type1
> (EE) Failed to load module "type1" (module does not exist, 0)
This is harmless; you can remove the "type1" line from your
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.
> (WW) NVIDIA: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0:1:3) found
This should be harmless as well. Many graphics cards have two PCI-IDs,
e.g. "VGA compatible controller" and "Display controller", and normally
it does not matter if there this kind of warning about the second one.
> (EE) Error compiling keymap (server-0)
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't compile keymap
AFAIK, this is an unrelated minor bug.
No real clues so far; what do you get from the following three commands?
lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|video|display|graphic'
lsmod | grep -E 'agp|fb|nvidia'
grep -Ei 'vesa|nvidia|frame|buffer' /var/log/syslog
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