Found out something NEW First I went back and reinstalled mdk 8.2 with X 3.3.6 so I would have something to login to. I then reinstalled the 2960 drivers to guarantee that they matched the kernel version (rather than booting from the CD which is a different version). Then I updated mdk 8.2 and selected X 4.2 and "do not test, do not start at boot" because those never work.
Then booted mdk 8.2. As usual I got the blank screen after the initial boot messages went away. (it isn't actually a black screen, it is a blank screen which is slightly illuminated). I thought, what the hey, why don't I try to login as root, even though I can't see anything. IT WORKS! There is just no display coming to the screen. So the console login does work even if it is useless with no display. From the disk activity I can see that commands such as ls do work. Tried to run XFdrake but the screen still stays blank. Went back, booted from the CD, and added nvidia and glx to the X config file and rebooted but as usual it doesn't change anything. Also noticed something in one of the logs from a X 4.2 attempted boot today about not finding the default fonts. Don't know if this would explain the console or X problems. "failed to set default font path unix/:-1 could not open default font fixed" I don't understand the unix/:-1 syntax (although it looks like something from my old VMS days) _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
