Strange X Behavior

[Ben Sheron]

I am seeing the NVidia splash screen, but only after I restart X.

Ben

On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 22:36, Edward wrote:
> Ben Sheron wrote:
> > This just started happening recently on my FC1 box; I am not sure what
> > is causing it.  Instead of X displaying the initial splash screen during
> > the boot messages, it just hangs, showing a black screen with an x in
> > the middle.  Pressing control-alt-backspace revives it, and I am able to
> > log in then.  Also, when I log out, X hangs with a slightly garbled
> > picture of my desktop background for about 30 seconds, and then goes
> > back to the normal login screen.  When I do a shutdown, it goes back to
> > the black screen with the x in the middle until my computer shuts down.
> > 
> > This hasn't really prevented me from using the box, but it is very
> > annoying.  I thought this was an Nvidia driver issue, but it worked fine
> > before with these drivers.  I have attached my XF86config file, as well
> > as the XFree86 log.  I have thought about recompiling, but am not sure
> > if this would help.  I have also thought about installing X.org.
> > 
> > Thanks for any insight...
> > 
> > Ben
> 
> If the driver is loading correctly, then you should see an NVidia splash 
> screen before anything else. If this is not happening, check whether the 
> nvidia module is actually loaded in memory.
> 
> Regards,
> Ed.