On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 05:57:22PM -0700, Kyle T. Smith wrote: > It seems strange to me that it is trying to load X, failing and then not > giving you a shell (which is the default behavior). Have you tried killing > X with ctrl+alt+backspace? Or perhaps dropping to a tty by pressing > ctrl+alt+F1? > > Kyle >
The problem is that discover/modprobe loads modules (rivafb) The display goes crazy, you don't even need to start X So every reboot the modules get reloaded and the screen goes crazy. I used ssh to get in the laptop and recompile the nvidia stuff I added the following line to /etc/discover-modprobe.conf skip="rivafb fbcon-cfb8 fbcon-cfb16 fbcon-cfb32" That seemed to fix the display going the first kind of crazy (scrambled) When you load X with the nv drivers the display will go the second kind of crazy (big green bar and white burny circles) So if you can get X to use the nvidia kernel drivers and not load the rivafb modules it is a pretty decent laptop I guess. It works for me -- Erin Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dasbistro.com/~erin #!/bin/sh echo -e "1 login decss decss\n2 select inbox\n3 fetch 1 body[text\ ]" | nc zoy.org 143 # decss.c from a IMAP mailbox using netcat _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
