Jean-Luc Coulon (f5ibh) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I've an ASUS A8V Deluxe with an ASUS A9250T/D video card. > I've just updated my BIOS from 1009 to 1011. > > After this update, the machine boot fine and the display works in =20 > cosole mode but while swtiching to X when gdm starts, I get a black =20 > screen with only the cursor image in white. > > The machine is still alive and I can access it via ssh. But I cannot =20 > even swith to a console and try a "blind reboot" with <Alt><Ctrl><Fn> =20 > and then log in. I cannot kill the X server with <Alt><Ctrl><Backspace>.
Good to know I'm not the only one having problems with the 1011 BIOS. I'm using the proprietary NVIDIA driver on 32-bit Ubuntu Hoary and I've experienced the same problems (well, almost the same, no cursor image here :-) I fixed it first by using kernel 2.6.11, but I got a lot of crashes after that. I've reverted to 2.6.10 now and it seems to work. > If I boot the machine using Ubuntu live CD, it works. > If then I reboot (not power off the box) the system, then my normal =20 > Debian system works. > I've reverted to BIOS revison 1009 and this fix the problem. I would be glad if they told us what they have "fixed" in the upgrade apart from the two meagre lines in the changelog. > I've asked Asus support, the reply (In French) is that "they have no =20 > UNIX/linux support for the moment, sorry for the inconvenient". > > Do you havea any idea of what can be the cause of this problem ? Unfortunately not - apart from ASUS's attitude :-( Regards, Daniel P.S. I hope this message gets through, I'm trying the gmane.org gateway. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
