On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 17:38 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
My T61 has the Nvidia Quadro NV140M video card. I tested the x86_64
live dvd and installed the x86_64 DVD. This message covers
platform-specific issues that I encountered.
Live DVD:
- The DVD won't boot into X. If I boot to runlevel 3 and attempt to
system-config-display, there are two problems.
(1) The Monitor section of xorg.conf is missing.
(2) The nv driver hangs with a black screen. The keyboard is still
functional and I can reboot with <CTRL>-<ALT>-<F1>
<CTRL>-<ALT>-<DEL>.
Hand-editing xorg.conf to create a Monitor section and using the vesa
driver restores X functionality.
An X log from the failed nv startup would be helpful here.
- X server doesn't terminate on logout--I have to
<CTRL>-<ALT>-<BKSP> to
kill it.
This was a bug I inflicted with a particular libICE/libSM combination.
It should be fixed now, I hope.
- Suspend doesn't work at all. Select Suspend from the power
applet and
the machine starts to suspend, the light comes on, then the light goes
off and the machine is live, except that the display is black. I can
reboot as above.
As always, suspend on nv graphics chips is a disaster.
- ajax