I am using the NVIDIA driver 6111, Linux 2.6.8 (gentoo-r4) and X.org 6.8.0. When starting X, I get a lock up with a black screen. X can be killed with ssh, but ALT+F1 doesn't work. Last lines from Xorg.0.log: (II) Module ramdac: vendor="X.Org Foundation" compiled for 6.8.0, module version = 0.1.0 ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 0.7 (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp (II) do I need RAC? No, I don't. (II) resource ranges after preInit: [0] 0 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B] [1] 0 0 0xd6000000 - 0xd6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B] [2] -1 0 0xffe00000 - 0xffffffff (0x200000) MX[B](B) [3] -1 0 0x00100000 - 0x3fffffff (0x3ff00000) MX[B]E(B) [4] -1 0 0x000f0000 - 0x000fffff (0x10000) MX[B] [5] -1 0 0x000c0000 - 0x000effff (0x30000) MX[B] [6] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x0009ffff (0xa0000) MX[B] [7] -1 0 0xd4800000 - 0xd481ffff (0x20000) MX[B] [8] -1 0 0xd5000000 - 0xd500001f (0x20) MX[B] [9] -1 0 0xd5800000 - 0xd580007f (0x80) MX[B] [10] -1 0 0xe4000000 - 0xe3ffffff (0x0) MX[B]O [11] -1 0 0xd7ff0000 - 0xd7ffffff (0x10000) MX[B](B) [12] -1 0 0xd8000000 - 0xdfffffff (0x8000000) MX[B](B) [13] -1 0 0xd6000000 - 0xd6ffffff (0x1000000) MX[B](B) [14] 0 0 0x000a0000 - 0x000affff (0x10000) MS[B](OprD) [15] 0 0 0x000b0000 - 0x000b7fff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD) [16] 0 0 0x000b8000 - 0x000bffff (0x8000) MS[B](OprD) [17] -1 0 0x0000ffff - 0x0000ffff (0x1) IX[B] [18] -1 0 0x00000000 - 0x000000ff (0x100) IX[B] [19] -1 0 0x00007800 - 0x0000783f (0x40) IX[B] [20] -1 0 0x00008000 - 0x00008003 (0x4) IX[B] [21] -1 0 0x00008400 - 0x00008407 (0x8) IX[B] [22] -1 0 0x00008800 - 0x00008803 (0x4) IX[B] [23] -1 0 0x00009000 - 0x00009007 (0x8) IX[B] [24] -1 0 0x00009400 - 0x00009407 (0x8) IX[B] [25] -1 0 0x00009800 - 0x0000981f (0x20) IX[B] [26] -1 0 0x0000a000 - 0x0000a01f (0x20) IX[B] [27] -1 0 0x0000a400 - 0x0000a47f (0x80) IX[B] [28] -1 0 0x0000d000 - 0x0000d01f (0x20) IX[B] [29] -1 0 0x0000d400 - 0x0000d41f (0x20) IX[B] [30] -1 0 0x0000d800 - 0x0000d80f (0x10) IX[B] [31] 0 0 0x000003b0 - 0x000003bb (0xc) IS[B](OprU) [32] 0 0 0x000003c0 - 0x000003df (0x20) IS[B](OprU) (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1152x864" Even should this be a problem with the NVIDIA driver, or the kernel, I don't think X ought to just hang without any error messages?! Works without problems with the nv driver. I will provide more info if required. See also: http://debianforum.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29624 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=32944&page=1 http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=30399&page=5&pp=15 http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=226187
I confirm this the same is happening to me. I tried a bunch of kernels, from 2.6.5 to 2.6.8, patched and vanillas, nvidia- drivers 6111 and 61106.
Ouch. I've forgotten to add my setup: I'm running gentoo, mobo:Chaintech 9cjs, i875 chipset vga: Chaintech GeForce FX 5900XT
Ok. My apologies for false alarm, it was a hardware fault. The problem was in my crappy VGA card. As a last resort I've patched VGA-BIOS to downclock it to 300/600 and at this frequency xorg and twm from cvs are rock solid.
The problem disappeared after upgrading to kernel 2.6.9 and new nvidia driver.
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