On Tuesday 04 September 2007 11:56, Raza Sayed wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently installed Debian Etch as a dual boot on my
> laptop .  I am having an issue with logging off  .
> Also ctrl+alt+f1 does not bring me to the shell . All
> I get is a black screen in both the cases 

console is in graphics mode with wrong driver.

> 2) Added vga=771 at the end of the kernel line in
> /boot/grub/menu.lst . Also tried vga=773,vga=791

vga=0

>
> 3) Ran the command
> su cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf | grep "Driver" to get
> information on driver and the output of the above
> command is :
>
> Driver    "kbd"
> Driver    "mouse"
> Driver    "vesa"

driver vesa should be via or the unichrome drivers from via.

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JTD

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