Re: sid: Console problems after starting X
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 12:58:21AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Here's what happening.
>
> After boot: normal console font (about 80 characters wide)
>
> After startx: small console font (maybe 132 characters?)
>
> A little later: no display in console at all (Alt-F7
> still gets me back to X)
>
> This problem appeared soon after converting to
> dependency-based boot process using insserv.
>
> I've been using a self-compiled amd64 kernel with 32-bit userland.
> No such problems before insserv.
>
> Thanks for any possible leads. I have no idea where to
> even start.
Yeah, that happened to me too, a while ago. It's the X driver.
Specifically, it's the KMS settings that are messing you up.
I hate KMS. It does solve certain problems for developers,
but causes other problems for users. Maybe in a few years all
these KMS-related bugs will get sorted out. But for now, they
are a pain.
How to fix it depends on your chipset. In one case, I had
an nvidia card, and the upgrade switched me from the nv
driver to the nouveau driver. I could get around it by
blacklisting the nouveau driver and creating an explicit
/etc/X11/xorg.conf file that specifies
driver = "nv"
in the appropriate place. For other chipsets, such as Intel,
you may be able to set a module parameter like "kms=0",
or some such thing. Search the internet for your card
manufacturer, Linux, and KMS, and maybe you'll find something.
These techniques are only a temporary stopgap measure.
Eventually, there will be no option. You will either have
to use KMS or not use an X server at all. Oh joy.
--
.''`. Stephen Powell
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