Robert M. Riches Jr.
2012-May-14 04:11 UTC
[Nouveau] any way to recover card after cursor disappears or card locks up
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
Vincent Pelletier
2012-May-14 06:23 UTC
[Nouveau] any way to recover card after cursor disappears or card locks up
Le lundi 14 mai 2012 06:11:10, Robert M. Riches Jr. a ?crit :> 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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