* any way to recover card after cursor disappears or card locks up
@ 2012-05-14 4:11 Robert M. Riches Jr.
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From: Robert M. Riches Jr. @ 2012-05-14 4:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW
With an Asus ENGT430 card, which the box says is a GeForce GT 430,
and with 64-bit Mageia 1 with kernel 2.6.38.8-server-10.mga, about
once a week, the mouse cursor disappears from at least one monitor
or the display locks up when exiting X. (I use runlevel 3 and
startx.) Usually, if the cursor disappears and I then exit X, the
display will lock up showing the X root window background. Once
the display has locked up, Alt-Ctrl-F* does nothing, SysRq does not
display anything (so I can't tell what it's doing). However, I'm
able to ssh into the system, and everything other than the display
is fine. After a reboot, everything seems fine. I don't think I
saw this problem until I did a sensors-detect and added a second
monitor. (Main monitor is on DVI, and second monitor is on HDMI.)
If I gather correctly, he GeForce GT 430 is an NVC1, GF108.
Is there any known way to recover from an invisible mouse cursor
or locked-up display other than rebooting? I understand there is
functionality in the kernel to manually switch between virtual
consoles. Can that be used to force the card to complete the
transition from X to a text console?
Thanks.
Robert Riches
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@ 2012-05-14 6:23 ` Vincent Pelletier
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From: Vincent Pelletier @ 2012-05-14 6:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW
Le lundi 14 mai 2012 06:11:10, Robert M. Riches Jr. a écrit :
> However, I'm able to ssh into the system, and everything other than the
> display is fine.
[...]
> I understand there is functionality in the kernel to manually switch between
> virtual consoles. Can that be used to force the card to complete the
> transition from X to a text console?
"chvt" is probably what you are looking for.
--
Vincent Pelletier
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