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Iskendar
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 Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 7:16 am Post subject: Logging out of X turns screen black after kernel upgrade |
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Hi all,
And the saga continues... I've done a number of upgrades recently, first from kde 3.2.1 to 3.2.2 with no noticeable ill effects (aside from juk ceasing to work). Then I upgraded from the 2.4.24 kernel to 2.6.5, which also required an upgrade of the Nvidia driver. So I emerged nvidia-kernel-1.0.5336-r3 and nvidia-glx-1.0.5336-r2.
Now the result is that when I log in using kdm, everything works fine, but
when I log out, whether it is merely ending the session to log in as a different user, or for going to a console login, or for shutting down the machine, I get
a black screen and no response whatsoever (ctrl-alt-del does nothing). It smells like a problem with XFree (I'm running version 4.3.0-r5) to me. Has anyone had similar problems? Any ideas what's causing this? It's pretty annoying, since it means that in order to shut down my pc, I need to reset, which can't be a good thing for my file system.
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FlipperDolfijn
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:29 am Post subject: |
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I have had a similar problem. I have a tvout cable always connected and the drivers were waiting for the secondairy display.
You can set an option in your XF86config file to ignore the secondairy display
I do not know it exactly but it is in the NVIDIA readme.
option "IgnoreSecondaryDisplay" |
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Iskendar
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 10:56 am Post subject: |
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| FlipperDolfijn wrote: | I have had a similar problem. I have a tvout cable always connected and the drivers were waiting for the secondairy display.
You can set an option in your XF86config file to ignore the secondairy display
I do not know it exactly but it is in the NVIDIA readme.
option "IgnoreSecondaryDisplay" |
Ah. Same here. And the older (1.0.4something) drivers didn't have this?
Ok, so if you put in IgnoreSecondaryDisplay, how do you use the second
display? I mean, the reason of having the tvout cable always connected is
being able to turn on the tv and displaying whatever you want to display
on it? Any workable way of using this?
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Iskendar
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| Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2004 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| FlipperDolfijn wrote: | I have had a similar problem. I have a tvout cable always connected and the drivers were waiting for the secondairy display.
You can set an option in your XF86config file to ignore the secondairy display
I do not know it exactly but it is in the NVIDIA readme.
option "IgnoreSecondaryDisplay" |
Ok, I commented out my TV screen, and now I can safely log out.
Have you gotten your tv-out to work with 5336? If so, how? I've always
used the somewhat unconventional method of using two "Screen" and two
"Device" sections (the latter both using the same nvidia driver), and then
putting them both into the ServerLayout section, instead of using TwinView, like this:
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#Server Layout
#============
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "XFree86 Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
Screen 1 "Screen TV" leftOf "Screen0"
InputDevice "Logitech Mouse"
InputDevice "Logitech Keyboard"
EndSection
# Graphics Card
# =============
Section "Device"
Identifier "Card0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 0
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia TV"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4200]"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Screen 1
EndSection
Screens
# =======
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Card0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
Defaultdepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen TV"
Device "Nvidia TV"
Monitor "MyTV"
Monitor "MyTV"
Option "TVStandard" "PAL-B"
Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubSection
EndSection
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This worked fine in the 1.0.4496 driver. Any ideas how I could get it to
work under 1.0.5336?
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Deathwing00
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M.Andersson
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| Posted: Mon Aug 30, 2004 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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I would too like to know, since I have the same problem, but I can't seem to get it right with the
| Code: | | Option "IgnoreSecondaryDisplay" |
I tried to put it under /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "Device" (I am using xorg), but there's no differance.
Should I have put it elsewhere? |
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