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 22:13:00 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090114221300.774b63fa@November> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090114210231.423fe17e@November>
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:02:31 +0000
John <john@arcticwolf.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
>
Sorry - shutdown no longer works and systems goes to black screen
Seems as though reinstalling nvidia drivers has made matters worse!!!
--
John D Maunder
john@articwolf.myzen.co.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-14 22:09 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
2009-01-14 22:13 ` John [this message]
2009-01-14 22:26 ` Dale
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2009-01-15 5:08 Rick Harris
2009-01-15 18:49 ` John
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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
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2019-07-19 11:52 ` Alan Mackenzie
2019-07-19 12:27 ` Rich Freeman
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