Dave, By any chance are you using nvidia's accelerated X11 drivers and the rivafb console framebuffer drivers at the same time? If so, that could very well be the source of your problems (rivafb is marked experimental for a reason!). lsmod should show NVdriver if using the nvidia driver and depending on how your kernel was compiled, rivafb might be listed too. cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version and cat /proc/fb will tell you for sure what drivers are being used. If you are using the rivafb driver but don't want to give up the nice hi-res console I'd recommend you switch to the generic vesa 2.0 driver. The module is called vesafb, it is much more stable but your screen will be limited to 60hz refresh on the console.
~Scott On January 13, 2003 12:58 am, Dave Bourassa wrote: > Thanx all for the input. Aarons describing for me better than I did > what appears to be happening .... > > Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > i love being the fourth one to answer! > > hrm... sounds like when the video card switches modes, X crashes. this > > probably takes not more than a few seconds. the rest of the 30 seconds > > you note is likely how long it takes X to die completely, the kernel to > > clean stuff up, init to get control again, X to respawn and your login > > manager to start up (which also happens to grab focus, ergo the annoying > > auto switch from console to GUI)... > > Yep. > > > and of course, once you log in using the desktop manager you end up back > > in KDE (since that's the job of the login manager). > > That's what happens, yep. > > > without logging in, does the same thing happen if you go to console when > > the desktop manager is on screen? > > I'll check on this ... > To go to console, I was using the Ctl-Alt-F1 key combination. Is that > the recommended way? > > >>What could I have done to cause this? How can I fix it? > > > > hard to say as you haven't given much info for us to go on yet... did it > > work previously? if so, what have you changed recently, if anything? > > It has been working just fine. To my knowledge, I haven't changed > anything. I was just going about looking at fstab and researching > > mounting my f: > > also, what sort of video card and which X driver are you using? i know > > there have been issues with a few vidcard/X driver combos and switching > > to the console before.... > > I've got an Asus GeForce4 TI4600 video card that's been running very > well. I haven't got a clue about the X Driver. I'd need to know how to > look that up. > > > - -- > > Aaron J. Seigo > > GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 > > > > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler" > > - Albert Einstein > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE+IkoX1rcusafx20MRAkYaAJwNuK4Bp3joTqqgSvoAQ3UfLPltQwCgn+VL > > NiNY48ijUpZ1aD9KQiL5pa8= > > =KzfL > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
