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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
