Xorg problems

[Karl Larsen]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Ulin the Tech Mage wrote:
>   
>> Karl Larsen wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>>         Two times now, after the monitor has been turned off an hour or 
>>> two, when it comes back up I have a dark screen with a good cursor that 
>>> moves as directed by the trackball. I have learned the fix is to use 
>>> Ctrl-Alt-F1 to drop out of X windows and then Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return to X 
>>> wildows. Below are the last few entries in Xorg-log and dmesg. They do 
>>> not show me much.
>>>
>>> SetGrabKeysState - disabled
>>> SetGrabKeysState - enabled
>>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
>>> (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
>>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
>>> (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
>>>
>>> [   52.372541] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:10.2 to 64
>>> [   52.695919] intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 54696 usecs
>>> [   52.695925] intel8x0: clocking to 46882
>>> [   56.004121] lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
>>> [   56.091162] Adding 1959920k swap on /dev/sda3.  Priority:-1 extents:1 
>>> across:1959920k
>>> [   56.678801] EXT3 FS on sda6, internal journal
>>> [   57.474722] kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
>>> [   57.474965] EXT3 FS on sda5, internal journal
>>> [   57.474973] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
>>> [   58.262158] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
>>>
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> try making a backup copy of your //etc/X11/xorg.conf file
>> then editing //etc/X11/xorg.conf and change the driver to "nv" instead 
>> of nvidia
>>
>>   
>>     
>     xorg.conf looks like this now:
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
>     Driver        "kbd"
>     Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
>     Option        "XkbModel"    "pc105"
>     Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
> EndSection
>
> Section "InputDevice"
>     Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
>     Driver        "mouse"
>     Option        "CorePointer"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
>     Driver        "nvidia"
>     Option        "NoLogo"    "True"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Monitor"
>     Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
> EndSection
>
> Section "Screen"
>     Identifier    "Default Screen"
>     Monitor        "Configured Monitor"
>     Device        "Configured Video Device"
>     Defaultdepth    24
> EndSection
>
> Section "ServerLayout"
>     Identifier    "Default Layout"
>   screen "Default Screen"
> EndSection
> Section "Module"
>     Load        "glx"
> EndSection
> karl at karl-hardy:~$
>
>     So I changed nvidia to nv and now I will reboot.
>
> Karl
>
>
>   
    I rebooted and came back up with a 600x800 screen. I put nvidia back 
into xorg.conf and I will ignore your advice. It doesn't work.

Karl


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