I filed bug 6472 against the text console not working after X fails to start. Incredibly frustrating, indeed. I think it's a duplicate, but I couldn't find the original.
Tom On Feb 9 2009, Bernd Markgraf wrote: > After i found out that X on SXCE ignores the kernels keyboard mapping and > defaults to US layout I stumbled across the fact that X for whatever > reason chose to use the nv driver instead of the nvidia one. So I edited > xorg.conf to use the nvidia driver which resulted in a warm brick :-( The > Xserver tries to start and fails with >(II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART. >(II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select" >(II) Loading extension NV-GLX >(II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA 3D Acceleration Architecture Initialized >(EE) NVIDIA(0): Need libwfb but wfbScreenInit not found > >Fatal server error: >AddScreen/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 > > The bad thing is that it completely borks the console i.e. X failing to > start doesn't come back to the text console. I see this with the nvidia > drivers included in SXCE (177.xx), also with 180.22 and 180.27 from the > NVidia website. libwfb.so is a link to NVIDIA/libnvidia-wfb.so and was > there for all driver releases I tried so far. > So right now it's back to Xorg + nv driver or is there a simple solution > to this issue? > > Bernd >
