On Saturday 04 February 2006 08:31, Antonio Montagnani wrote: > Antonio Montagnani wrote / ha scritto on /il 04/02/2006 11:24: > > after recent upgrades (I mean latest of yesterday), at start-up before > > the login screen, system freezes and I get an arrow on a grey screen. > > If I hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, system starts fine and any user can log > > in the usual screen, but I can see for a short time the no-graphical > > login screen with small characters. > > Furthermore while at boot I have normal characters (I do not any > > graphiccal interface at boot) when I stop the machine characters have > > become small > > Everything was o.k. until this morning when I re-booted the machine > > (no-reboot yesterday after upgrades) > > video card is ATI9000, no problem at all with Linux: shall I need to > post any log file (which one?)? > > -- > Antonio > ============================================================= > Mail by Thunderbird 1.5 - Websurfing by Firefox 1.5 > ============================================================= > Linux Fedora Core 4 on Maxdata Eco 3200 > Linux user number 362582 > http://www.linuxsaronno.net > http://www.montagnani.org > http://www.campingmonterosa.com > ============================================================= I have had similar issues on shutdown where, on occasion, the init script output is compressed (very small) and at the top center of the screen. My card is; nVidia Corporation NV5 [RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro] (rev 11) My issue appears to be the video card not switching modes. This would be a kernel bug (for the driver module?) not receiving or changing video states. Fired this off to give you some thought. -- Some people have convictions. Some people have opinions I think I'll have a cheeseburger!
