From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 20 06:57:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BE1116A4CE for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 06:57:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from forth.intelligent-dns.com (forth.intelligent-dns.com [66.150.197.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 747D943D1D for ; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 06:57:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from graeme@r5k.net) Received: from 82-41-8-119.cable.ubr02.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.8.119] helo=ichiwan.idavoll.net) by forth.intelligent-dns.com with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 4.24) id 1AuC6E-0004s6-H6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:57:54 +0000 From: Graeme Smith To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:57:46 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <200402191801.31401.graeme@r5k.net> <20040219211810.GA72987@kayjay.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20040219211810.GA72987@kayjay.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200402201457.48531.graeme@r5k.net> X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - forth.intelligent-dns.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - r5k.net Subject: Re: System hangs when I go from X to console (nvidia) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: graeme@r5k.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:57:58 -0000 On Thursday 19 Feb 2004 21:18, Karel J. Bosschaart wrote: > I had a similar problem with an nvidia GeForce4 (Ti4200). Switching > to console would make it hang while the letters on the console > appeared very faint. Searching on the linux forum of the nvidia > site I found people having the same problem as well as a > workaround: put 'Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "TV"' in the > 'Screen' section of XF86Config, disabling the TV-out. I had read that too, except that it should go in the "device" section. However, I tried in screen section but it didn't improve matters. XFree86.0.log shows that the option is being used though. >a working console is much more important for me.) I agree that a working console is far more useful than TV out. > Hmm, if you have another machine and a network you could try to do > a remote login and see if that works. If you succeed to login (ie. > the machine is still alive but displays nothing on the screen), you > might be able to bring it back killing X. A very good point (can't believe I didn't think of it). I opened an SSH session on my SGI and ran 'top'. As soon as it switched to console 'top', and the SSH session, froze. > Not sure if this helps but I wish you good luck. > > Karel. Thanks for the help Karel, it's much appreciated.