On Thu, Apr 09, 2009 at 18:10:41 +1000, Graham Williams wrote: > Have just upgraded
To what? Lenny, Squeeze, or Sid? > a fairly vanilla etch install on a Dell Precision > 690 (AMD64) with an nvidia graphics chip. Which chipset is it? Post the output of lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'vga|graphic|display' > All seemed to proceed well, > but on reboot and starting up GDM, most key presses result in the > screen resolution changing - I can't login! > > After quite a bit of research and attempts to determine what is going > on, I have run out of ideas! Ctrl-Alt-f1, etc, do not function. The > simplest way I've figured out to log on is through single user > mode. Keyboard works just fine there. Booting into a Red Hat partition > is also just fine. Post the output of these three commands: awk '/Section.*"InputDevice"/,/EndSection/' /etc/X11/xorg.conf grep -E '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log grep -Ei 'keyboard' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (You can do this in single user mode because the Xorg log from the previous start of X should still be present as long as GDM has not been restarted.) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
