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covici@××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> Hi. I am having a very bad problem which makes gnome unusable -- once I |
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> get into the virtual console where the xserver is displaying gnome, |
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> console 12 in my case, I can never get out of that console -- |
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> control-alt-f1 or anything does not work. If I try to ssh in from |
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> somewhere else, I cannot stop gdm because the x server will not stop -- |
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> even kill -9 will not stop it and I have to reboot the system. |
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> I am using an nvidia card with the closed source module, if that makes |
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> any difference. I re-emerged the keyboard and evdev driver, but that |
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> made no difference. |
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> Any suggestions would be appreciated. |
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Well, I did a couple of things, which made it work, but I think its |
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pretty fragile. First, I did go to 4.1.12 which is still the latest |
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lts. I had to reinstall the nvidia-drivers and I still had the problem, |
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interestingly enough, it manifested when I went from console 1 by moving |
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alt-left-arrow to the X console and got some kind of modeset error. |
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this led me to think that maybe nvidia-settings had something to do with |
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it and I discovered I had an old version not sure how that got to stay |
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and I tried to install the latest one, which had two effects -- it |
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downgraded nvidia-drivers to 3.55.11 and tried to install |
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nvidia-settings, but that would not install because there is a file conflict |
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with -- guess what -- nvidia drivers! So I unmerged the old one and for |
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now it seems to work, but I don't know what will happen in the future |
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this way. Very strange! |
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Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: |
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How do |
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you spend it? |
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John Covici |
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covici@××××××××××.com |
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