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I tried to log out of my account this morning, only to be launched into a full-screen terminal. It was very unnerving, especially after the events that led up to this occcurance.
My computer was acting a bit funny this morning. First it wouldn't connect to the internet, but it said my I was receiving a signal. Checked my Network prefs. They looked normal. Decided to check my Sharing prefs. I notice my firewall was turned off. When I go to turn it back on, I get the spinning beach ball. Five minutes later I force quit, restart System Prefs and have another go at it, only this time the System Prefs are locked and it won't let me unlock them. And that's when I decided to log out and then log back in . . . But I never did.
After seeing the big black screen with the blinking cursor I paniced. I shut down the computer, let it sit, and then started it back up.
Any idea what the problem was?
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I've got a widescreen 1680x1080 monitor and an Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS graphics card and I've tried using nvidia and nouveau drivers.
It only started AFTER i'd installed Xorg, I'd just log into x then kill it and i'd have half my screen missing.
I've tried setting nvidia-settings and editing the conf files in Xorg but it must be an issue outside of X surely, as It's always fine in openbox?
any ideas?
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EDIT: I did try searching but to no avail - if there's a topic on this i'm very sorry =/
Last edited by teatreetea (2011-01-12 15:28:07)

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/var/log/Xorg.0.log
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading extension DOUBLE-BUFFER
[ 3557.788] (II) LoadModule: "record"
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/librecord.so
[ 3557.788] (II) Module record: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 3557.788] compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.13.0
[ 3557.788] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 3557.788] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading extension RECORD
[ 3557.788] (II) LoadModule: "extmod"
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libextmod.so
[ 3557.788] (II) Module extmod: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 3557.788] compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 3557.788] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 3557.788] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading extension XFree86-VidModeExtension
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DGA
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading extension DPMS
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading extension XVideo
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading extension XVideo-MotionCompensation
[ 3557.788] (II) Loading extension X-Resource
[ 3557.788] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 3557.789] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 3557.799] (II) Module glx: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 3557.799] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 3557.799] Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[ 3557.799] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module 260.19.29 Wed Dec 8 12:24:30 PST 2010
[ 3557.799] (II) Loading extension GLX
[ 3557.799] (II) LoadModule: "dri"
[ 3557.799] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so
[ 3557.800] (II) Module dri: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 3557.800] compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 3557.800] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[ 3557.800] (II) Loading extension XFree86-DRI
[ 3557.800] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[ 3557.800] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri2.so
[ 3557.800] (II) Module dri2: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 3557.800] compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.2.0
[ 3557.800] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 4.0
[ 3557.800] (II) Loading extension DRI2
[ 3557.800] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[ 3557.800] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
[ 3557.801] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[ 3557.801] compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 3557.801] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 3558.216] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver 260.19.29 Wed Dec 8 12:10:14 PST 2010
[ 3558.216] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[ 3558.216] (--) using VT number 8
[ 3558.220] (II) Loading sub module "fb"
[ 3558.220] (II) LoadModule: "fb"
[ 3558.220] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libfb.so
[ 3558.221] (II) Module fb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 3558.221] compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 3558.221] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 3558.221] (II) Loading sub module "wfb"
[ 3558.221] (II) LoadModule: "wfb"
[ 3558.221] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so
[ 3558.221] (II) Module wfb: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 3558.221] compiled for 1.9.2, module version = 1.0.0
[ 3558.221] ABI class: X.Org ANSI C Emulation, version 0.4
[ 3558.221] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[ 3558.221] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[ 3558.221] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[ 3558.221] (II) NVIDIA(0): Creating default Display subsection in Screen section
"Screen0" for depth/fbbpp 24/32
[ 3558.221] (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[ 3558.221] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[ 3558.221] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[ 3558.221] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[ 3558.221] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
[ 3558.222] (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
[ 3558.222] (II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
[ 3559.086] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8400 GS (G98) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)
[ 3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
[ 3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 62.98.71.00.52
[ 3559.086] (II) NVIDIA(0): Detected PCI Express Link width: 16X
[ 3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on this GPU
[ 3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): Connected display device(s) on GeForce 8400 GS at PCI:1:0:0
[ 3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): NTS MBW-SERIAL (CRT-1)
[ 3559.086] (--) NVIDIA(0): NTS MBW-SERIAL (CRT-1): 400.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
[ 3559.136] (II) NVIDIA(0): Assigned Display Device: CRT-1
[ 3559.136] (==) NVIDIA(0):
[ 3559.136] (==) NVIDIA(0): No modes were requested; the default mode "nvidia-auto-select"
[ 3559.136] (==) NVIDIA(0): will be used as the requested mode.
[ 3559.136] (==) NVIDIA(0):
[ 3559.136] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated modes:
[ 3559.136] (II) NVIDIA(0): "nvidia-auto-select"
[ 3559.136] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1680 x 1050
[ 3559.172] (--) NVIDIA(0): DPI set to (90, 88); computed from "UseEdidDpi" X config
[ 3559.172] (--) NVIDIA(0): option
[ 3559.172] (==) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 32-bit ARGB GLX visuals.
[ 3559.172] (--) Depth 24 pixmap format is 32 bpp
[ 3559.172] (II) NVIDIA: Using 768.00 MB of virtual memory for indirect memory access.
[ 3559.174] (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized GPU GART.
[ 3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; the daemon
[ 3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0): may not be running or the "AcpidSocketPath" X
[ 3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0): configuration option may not be set correctly. When the
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[ 3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0): try to use it to receive ACPI event notifications. For
[ 3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0): details, please see the "ConnectToAcpid" and
[ 3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0): "AcpidSocketPath" X configuration options in Appendix B: X
[ 3559.182] (II) NVIDIA(0): Config Options in the README.
[ 3559.187] (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "nvidia-auto-select"
[ 3559.254] (II) Loading extension NV-GLX
[ 3559.278] (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized OpenGL Acceleration
[ 3559.283] (==) NVIDIA(0): Disabling shared memory pixmaps
[ 3559.283] (II) NVIDIA(0): Initialized X Rendering Acceleration
[ 3559.283] (==) NVIDIA(0): Backing store disabled
[ 3559.283] (==) NVIDIA(0): Silken mouse enabled
[ 3559.290] (==) NVIDIA(0): DPMS enabled
[ 3559.290] (II) Loading extension NV-CONTROL
[ 3559.291] (II) Loading extension XINERAMA
[ 3559.291] (II) Loading sub module "dri2"
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[ 3559.767] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: always reports core events
[ 3559.767] (**) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Device: "/dev/input/event0"
[ 3559.786] (--) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Found keys
[ 3559.786] (II) AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: Configuring as keyboard
[ 3559.786] (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "AT Translated Set 2 key$
[ 3559.786] (**) Option "xkb_rules" "evdev"
[ 3559.786] (**) Option "xkb_model" "evdev"
[ 3559.786] (**) Option "xkb_layout" "us"
[ 3559.787] (II) config/udev: Adding input device PC Speaker (/dev/input/event$
[ 3559.787] (II) No input driver/identifier specified (ignoring)
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