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From: John <john@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:02:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114210231.423fe17e@November> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114194125.GA32609@math.princeton.edu>

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:41:25 -0500
Willie Wong <wwong@princeton.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 06:58:08PM +0000, John wrote:
> > 	Whenever I logout my machine crashes to a black screen and
> > is unresponsive. I cannot get into any terminals and have to
> > 	reboot. It is a problem with my nvidia-drivers - have
> > 	uninstalled nvidia-drivers and used X11 "nv" drivers and all
> > 	works fine.
> > 	Tried various login managers and still the same issue. Use
> > xfce. Machine shuts down ok but only happens when I logout and wish
> > 	to change user.
> > 
> > 	Any help would be appreciated 
> > 
> 
> Anything in Xorg logs? System logs?
> 
> How hard is the lock-up? Is it just the terminal (can you ssh into the
> machine? does it respond to pings?)? Is it a kernel thing? 
> 
> What about other (older) versions of nVidia drivers? Which card and
> which driver are you using now? 
> 
> W

Nothing in Xorg logs, system logs
Lockup is complete - machine is totally unresposive even to ssh/ping
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-177.82
Kernel version 2.6.27-gentoo-r7
Card is Geforce GO 6100. 
PC is laptop and logout has been working, maybe a update has done this
and i have missed it. 
Is this common?
Using syslog-ng, if you could advise on a config that may pick
something up in logs


-- 
John D Maunder
john@articwolf.myzen.co.uk



  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-14 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-14 18:58 [gentoo-user] Black Screen of Death John
2009-01-14 19:41 ` Willie Wong
2009-01-14 21:02   ` John [this message]
2009-01-14 22:13     ` John
2009-01-14 22:26       ` Dale
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-15  5:08 Rick Harris
2009-01-15 18:49 ` John
2019-07-18 22:29 jdm
2019-07-18 23:30 ` gentoo-user
2019-07-19  0:59 ` Adam Carter
2019-07-19  5:09   ` jdm
2019-07-19  5:28     ` jdm
2019-07-19  6:48       ` Stefan Schmiedl
2019-08-01  0:02         ` Bill Kenworthy
2019-07-19 10:59       ` Mick
     [not found] ` <20190718233058.01FAEE07AE@pigeon.gentoo.org>
2019-07-19 11:52   ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-19 12:27     ` Rich Freeman

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