Re: Wish I could see it

On Friday 02 November 2007, Daren Beattie wrote:
> Thank you for making this live CD! I was eager to give it a test run and
> see the work that's been done, but when I boot the CD, I run into a problem
> at the point where it starts KDM. There is a bunch of disk activity, but
> the screen goes blank and remains blank indefinitely. Furthermore, the
> system does not accept keyboard input (at least there is no response to
> known commands such as Ctrl+Alt+F1 or Ctrl+Alt+Bksp). I was able to access
> the running system using SSH. From there, if I stop KDM, I can see a
> flashing cursor on the screen where you would expect to see the command
> prompt. There is no text, just a cursor. I can type commands, but can't see
> the text that I type (or the output), just a cursor. The same is true for
> all
> pseudo-terminals.
>
> Looking at the xorg.conf (through the SSH connection which gives me good
> CLI access to the system), all appears well--my monitor and display adapter
> were correctly identified and are given appropriate settings. But once X
> tries to start, the display is hosed.
>
> For reference, here's some hardware specs:
> AMD Athlon XP 3000+ (2.1GHz, 32-bit)
> nVidia n-Force 2 motherboard chipset
> nVidia geForce 6800GS (AGP, 256MB RAM)
> 1GB PC2700 system memory (2x512MB)
> 2 SATA HDDs, 1 ATAPI optical drive, 1 3.5" floppy drive
> Hauppauge TV tuner (not used, but detected by the kernel and drivers are
> automatically loaded at boot time)
> Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS
> PS/2 keyboard and mouse

For what it's worth, I had the same problem: kde starts but the screen never comes up and swithching to console is not possible. I did not think of trying to kill x with Ctrl-alt-Backspace though...

Chris

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C. Hurschler


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