Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console, leaves screen blank
I had the same problem on an older machine. I was able to work around it by adding the NVreg_UseVBios=0 option to /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-common.conf and rebooting. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
On 2011-08-02 00:19, Andreas Beckmann wrote: The following new NVIDIA driver versions are available: * 275.09.07-5 (release) in testing * 275.21-1 (release) in unstable * 280.11-1 (beta) in experimental Please test them. 295.20 in unstable 290.10 in testing 280.13.really.275.36-1~bpo60+1 in squeeze-backports Andreas PS: If we receive no further information about this issue, I'll close this bug report in 4 weeks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
Hi Andreas, is there any reason to believe that the bug is actually fixed, from upstream code changes? I tried out several of the experimental packages you pointed me to, but none of them changed a bit. For this reason I've become reluctant to try out new ones, especially since it it quite tedious to manually download and install the experimental packages with all dependencies every time. Since I'm no apt-configuration expert: Maybe you could point me to a pinning rule that would allow me to install the experimental nvidia packages through aptitude without breaking my squeeze system? That would be great! Thanks, Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
PS: I do already have installed 280.13.really.275.36-1~bpo60+1 in squeeze-backports though, and the problem remains. Blank screen when I switch to the console. In the mean time I also upgraded my graphics card, it is now an nVidia GeForce 6600 GT, so apparently its not model-specific. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
The following new NVIDIA driver versions are available: * 275.09.07-5 (release) in testing * 275.21-1 (release) in unstable * 280.11-1 (beta) in experimental Please test them. Thanks. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
A new beta release (275.09.04-1) is available in experimental. Andreas PS: Please keep the bug in Cc: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
Two new driver versions are available: * 270.41.19-1 (release) in unstable * 275.09-1 (beta) in experimental Please try them. Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
Two new driver versions are available: * 270.41.19-1 (release) in unstable * 275.09-1 (beta) in experimental Please try them. The bug remains, with both of them. Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
Hello, is this issue still present with the 270.41.06-1 driver which is available in unstable? I just installed it and, yes, unfortunately it is still there. For a moment I thought its gone, because after X started and the startup screen of KDE is displayed I could still switch to the console. But after the KDE startup is finished I can no longer switch, or rather, I get the blank screen behind which the console might be hidden. Maybe this gives further insight in what might be the problem? E.g. some special graphics funcion enabled only after KDE is up and running. However, I don't have compositing enabled, which is the only thing that came to my mind... If I can help with any further checks, please tell me so. Cheers, Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
Hi, is this issue still present with the 270.41.06-1 driver which is available in unstable? Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
Hi Andreas, Did you mean squeeze instead of lenny? At least this information Yes, sorry, I meant squeeze. I reorder your suggestions in the order I tried them: 1. Try to reproduce the problem with a free driver, e.g. nv or nouveau instead the the non-free nvidia driver. In /etc/X11/xorg.conf change the Driver nvidia line to nv or nouveau and reboot (or stop X, rmmod nvidia, start X, but a reboot is probably better to create a clean (and reproducible) environment). Or just move xorg.conf away and reboot, X autoconfiguration is advanced enough to not need a xorg.conf for a default setup with free drivers. Ensure the nvidia kernel module is not loaded (will be autoloaded if listed in /etc/modules) lsmod | grep nvidia should list nothing (test this after X has been started). I removed all the nvidia-related packages and modified xorg.conf to use the nouveau driver. This removed the problem, the virtual linux consoles are working normally. 3. Also test a minimal xorg.conf for the nvidia driver as described in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.Debian - eventually some of the options in your xorg.conf (which seems to originate from some time ago) are problematic nowadays. I reinstalled the nvidia packages from squeeze and replaced my old xorg.conf with the minimal one just loading the nvidia driver. The problem was as before, blank screen after switching to the console. So it seems the problem is related to the non-free nvidia packages. 2. If the problem seems to be related to nvidia, please try the driver currently in experimental, it may have been fixed by upstream inbetween. Here I'm not entirely sure whether I did it correctly. I manually installed the packages nvidia-glx_260.19.21-1_i386.deb libgl1-nvidia-glx_260.19.21-1_i386.deb nvidia-kernel-dkms_260.19.21-1_i386.deb nvidia-settings_195.36.24-1_i386.deb downloaded from http://packages.debian.org/sid/, using dpkg -i, automatically removing the squeeze packages in the process. There seems to be no nvidia- settings package 260.* in experimental right now. The problem persists as with the packages in squeeze. But maybe there are other experimental packages I should have installed as well? Anyway, nvidia-settings says I'm using driver version 260.19.21. Btw., is there a better way to quickly pull in a package from experimental its dependencies? I know there is apt-pinning, but I don't want to litter my package information cache with all the experimental packages just to briefly try out a few of them. Thank you, Carsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.7.7-11 Severity: important After being logged in to my KDE session under X, switching to a virtual linux console using Ctrl-Alt-F1 leads to a blank screen. The console seems to be working, insofar as I can log in blindly and start a command, which I can verify is running after switching back to the X session using Ctrl-Alt-F7. Because of this, I suspect that the problem is that either the video mode is not set correctly, or the font is not loaded. However, I did no special screen mode / font configurations before or after upgrading to lenny, so this can't be the problem. I am not entirely sure whether the problem lies with this package or another one, but I can't come up with a way to find out what exactly is going wrong. If you can point me to a way to pinpoint the problem, I would be glad to do so. -- Package-specific info: /var/lib/x11/X.roster does not exist. /var/lib/x11/X.md5sum does not exist. X server symlink status: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Mar 7 2009 /etc/X11/X - /usr/bin/Xorg -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1733468 Jan 12 04:50 /usr/bin/Xorg /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.roster does not exist. VGA-compatible devices on PCI bus: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce 6600 GT] (rev a2) /var/lib/x11/xorg.conf.md5sum does not exist. Xorg X server configuration file status: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1714 Sep 4 2009 /etc/X11/xorg.conf Contents of /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings # nvidia-settings: version 1.0 (buildd@ninsei) Tue Jun 24 18:11:48 UTC 2008 Section ServerLayout Identifier MyLayout Screen 0 MyScreen 0 0 InputDeviceMyKeyboard CoreKeyboard InputDeviceMyMouse CorePointer EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb FontPath/usr/local/share/fonts EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load extmod Load type1 Load freetype Load glx EndSection Section ServerFlags Option Xinerama 0 EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier MyMouse Driver mouse EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier MyKeyboard Driver kbd Option XkbRules xorg Option XkbModel pc105 Option XkbLayout de Option XkbVariant basic EndSection Section Monitor Identifier MyMonitor VendorName EIZO ModelName L557 HorizSync 31.0 - 64.0 VertRefresh 59.0 - 61.0 EndSection Section Device Identifier MyDevice Driver nvidia VendorName NVIDIA Corporation BoardName GeForce FX 5900ZT Option RenderAccel true EndSection Section Screen Identifier MyScreen Device MyDevice MonitorMyMonitor DefaultDepth24 Option TwinView 0 Option metamodes nvidia-auto-select +0+0 EndSection Section Extensions Option Composite enable EndSection Kernel version (/proc/version): Linux version 2.6.32-5-686 (Debian 2.6.32-30) (b...@decadent.org.uk) (gcc version 4.3.5 (Debian 4.3.5-4) ) #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 Xorg X server log files on system: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21949 Apr 27 2010 /var/log/Xorg.2.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12003 Jan 10 00:11 /var/log/Xorg.1.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11804 Jan 29 13:20 /var/log/Xorg.0.log Contents of most recent Xorg X server log file /var/log/Xorg.0.log: X.Org X Server 1.7.7 Release Date: 2010-05-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.32.28-dsa-ia32 i686 Debian Current Operating System: Linux buffy 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Wed Jan 12 04:01:41 UTC 2011 i686 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686 root=UUID=defacf2a-dbd7-491a-9867-83f2c9bf8c02 ro quiet Build Date: 12 January 2011 03:44:48AM xorg-server 2:1.7.7-11 (Cyril Brulebois k...@debian.org) Current version of pixman: 0.16.4 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Sat Jan 29 13:20:11 2011 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) Using system config directory /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d Parse error on line 12 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf Ignoring obsolete keyword RgbPath. (==) ServerLayout MyLayout (**) |--Screen MyScreen (0) (**) | |--Monitor MyMonitor (**) | |--Device MyDevice (**) |--Input Device MyKeyboard (**) |--Input Device MyMouse (**) Option Xinerama 0 (==) Automatically adding devices (==) Automatically enabling devices (WW) The directory /usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**)
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
reassign 611452 nvidia-glx thanks Hi Carsten, Carsten Allefeld carsten.allef...@googlemail.com (29/01/2011): Package: xserver-xorg-core Version: 2:1.7.7-11 Severity: important After being logged in to my KDE session under X, switching to a virtual linux console using Ctrl-Alt-F1 leads to a blank screen. The console seems to be working, insofar as I can log in blindly and start a command, which I can verify is running after switching back to the X session using Ctrl-Alt-F7. Because of this, I suspect that the problem is that either the video mode is not set correctly, or the font is not loaded. However, I did no special screen mode / font configurations before or after upgrading to lenny, so this can't be the problem. I am not entirely sure whether the problem lies with this package or another one, but I can't come up with a way to find out what exactly is going wrong. If you can point me to a way to pinpoint the problem, I would be glad to do so. you're using nvidia stuff, so I'm reassigning to the nvidia-glx package, which is the entry point for bug reports against nvidia-related packages (as far as I can tell; please, nvidia maintainers, tell us if there's a more appropriate package in such cases). KiBi. signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
Hi Carsten, Carsten Allefeld carsten.allef...@googlemail.com (29/01/2011): After being logged in to my KDE session under X, switching to a virtual linux console using Ctrl-Alt-F1 leads to a blank screen. The console seems to be working, insofar as I can log in blindly and start a command, which I can verify is running after switching back to the X session using Ctrl-Alt-F7. Because of this, I suspect that the problem is that either the video mode is not set correctly, or the font is not loaded. However, I did no special screen mode / font configurations before or after upgrading to lenny, so this can't be Did you mean squeeze instead of lenny? At least this information suggests that you use squeeze: -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') the problem. I am not entirely sure whether the problem lies with this package or another one, but I can't come up with a way to find out what exactly is going wrong. If you can point me to a way to pinpoint the problem, I would be glad to do so. Some things to try: 1. Try to reproduce the problem with a free driver, e.g. nv or nouveau instead the the non-free nvidia driver. In /etc/X11/xorg.conf change the Driver nvidia line to nv or nouveau and reboot (or stop X, rmmod nvidia, start X, but a reboot is probably better to create a clean (and reproducible) environment). Or just move xorg.conf away and reboot, X autoconfiguration is advanced enough to not need a xorg.conf for a default setup with free drivers. Ensure the nvidia kernel module is not loaded (will be autoloaded if listed in /etc/modules) lsmod | grep nvidia should list nothing (test this after X has been started). 2. If the problem seems to be related to nvidia, please try the driver currently in experimental, it may have been fixed by upstream inbetween. 3. Also test a minimal xorg.conf for the nvidia driver as described in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.Debian - eventually some of the options in your xorg.conf (which seems to originate from some time ago) are problematic nowadays. Thanks Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#611452: Re: Bug#611452: xserver-xorg-core: switching to linux console leaves screen blank
reopen 611452 found 611452 195.36.31-1 thanks Hi Julien, hi Cyril, On -28163-01--10 20:59, Julien Cristau wrote: You're using a closed driver, we can't support that. On 2011-01-29 16:52, Cyril Brulebois wrote: you're using nvidia stuff, so I'm reassigning to the nvidia-glx package, which is the entry point for bug reports against nvidia-related packages (as far as I can tell; please, nvidia maintainers, tell us if there's a more appropriate package in such cases). Please don't close the nvidia related bug reports but reassign them to nvidia-graphics-drivers (the source package) or nvidia-glx (the primary aka xorg driver binary package) and let us nvidia maintainers deal with them. Thanks Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
