Xorg problems

[Ulin the Tech Mage]

Karl Larsen wrote:
> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>> Ulin the Tech Mage wrote:
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>>> Karl Larsen wrote:
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>>>>         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
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>>> 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
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>>     xorg.conf looks like this now:
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>> Section "InputDevice"
>>     Identifier    "Generic Keyboard"
>>     Driver        "kbd"
>>     Option        "XkbRules"    "xorg"
>>     Option        "XkbModel"    "pc105"
>>     Option        "XkbLayout"    "us"
>> EndSection
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>> Section "InputDevice"
>>     Identifier    "Configured Mouse"
>>     Driver        "mouse"
>>     Option        "CorePointer"
>> EndSection
>>
>> Section "Device"
>>     Identifier    "Configured Video Device"
>>     Driver        "nvidia"
>>     Option        "NoLogo"    "True"
>> EndSection
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>> Section "Monitor"
>>     Identifier    "Configured Monitor"
>> EndSection
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>> 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:~$
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>>     So I changed nvidia to nv and now I will reboot.
>>
>> Karl
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>     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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hmmm you might try sudo dpkg--reconfigure xorg and see what happens