Xorg problems

[Karl Larsen]

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


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