Re: No console from X

[Ed Jabbour <ejbr@att.net>]

On Saturday 16 May 2009 15:44:25 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 13:24:45 -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> > On Saturday 16 May 2009 12:05:56 Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > > 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.
[snip]

> > > grep -Ei 'vesa|nvidia|frame|buffer' /var/log/syslog
> >
> > This returns nothing.
>
> Then your syslog must have been rotated since your last reboot; the
> messages that I am interested in are written to the syslog when the
> system boots up. (I am not sure if these messages will actually be
> helpful to us, but we do not have much more to go on at the moment.)

OK.  I rebooted and ran it again.  Not sure it's relevant, but:

May 16 16:45:32 Ajax kernel: [    0.000000] ACPI: FACP 7BF649BA, 00F4 (r3 
NVIDIA MCP67-M   6040000 PTL_    F4240)
May 16 16:45:32 Ajax kernel: [    0.000000] ACPI: DSDT 7BF5C13A, 880C (r1 
NVIDIA    MCP67  6040000 MSFT  3000000)
May 16 16:45:32 Ajax kernel: [    0.084002] Security Framework initialized
May 16 16:45:45 Ajax kernel: [   26.584309] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86 
Kernel Module  173.14.09  Wed Jun  4 23:43:17 PDT 2008

> Furthermore, if you run
>
> tail -fn0 /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> in an X terminal and switch to the (blank) console and back, you should
> see several lines of new Xorg log entries. (You can use CTRL-C to stop
> tailing the log once you are back at X.) Post this output here, please.

(II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
(II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI display change hotkey events enabled: the X server is new
(II) NVIDIA(0):     enough to receive ACPI display change hotkey events.
(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
(--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad auto-dev sets device to /dev/input/event8
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/event8"
(--) SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad touchpad found

And, thanks for trying to track this down.