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On 11/14/06, Daevid Vincent <daevid@××××××.com> wrote: |
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> This seems like a newb question. I've been using my Gentoo for a few years |
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> now, and since X/KDE/Gnome/etc. never seemed to be quite stable, I always |
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> booted into command lines and then manually 'startx' JICSH. |
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> But I find myself almost always doing that these days, so I suppose it's |
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> time to make the plunge so that X starts when I boot up. I'm still a bit |
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> worried about hibernation (which I don't have working anyways - yet), I |
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> recall there were issues with nvidia and suspending to HD/RAM if you were in |
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> X. That could be old news? |
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For me, suspend-to-ram works better from X than from a console, using |
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the proprietary drivers. In fact if I suspend from a console, the |
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graphics card will fail to resume correctly. |
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Suspend-to-disk may or may not work better for you from X. Neither of |
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my systems are working with STD currently... |
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> Anyways, I can't get this to work. When I boot up, the screen is BLACK. Not |
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> just back-lit black, but like there's no power black. If I CTRL+ALT+1, I get |
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> to a shell prompt. |
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Hmm, is this a laptop? X/Nvidia can sometimes decide to drive only |
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the external video instead of the LCD, which appears as the symptoms |
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you describe. I guess this could also happen on a desktop if the |
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graphics card has multiple outputs. |
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Anyway, on the console, run "ps auwx | grep X" and make sure that X is |
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running. Also check /var/log/kdm.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log for |
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error messages. |
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-Richard |
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