Re: Wish I could see it

El Sábado, 3 de Noviembre de 2007, Chris escribió:
> 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
>
> --
> C. Hurschler

Do you have the same hardware? if not could you detail it and follow instructions I gave Daren?

Thanks.

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     Raúl Sánchez Siles
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