Just upgraded from a 6200TC to a 7600GS. Pulled out the old card, put in the new card, did an auto upgrade (R5.5 to R5.5).

However, when the auto-upgrade restored my xorg.conf (for the 6200TC), I got a black screen.

Does anybody know what I need to do to generate a good xorg.conf for the new card?

Thanks!

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Silverstone LC10|MSI K8N Neo4-F|1GB PC3200|Athlon 64 X2 4200+|NEC 3550A DVD-RW
750GB + 400GB w/Storage Groups|eVGA GeForce 7600 GS w/VGA out to Aquos 32" LCD |PVR-500|PVR-250|SiliconDust HDHomerun

The xorg.conf should be fine as the changes made to produce it are minimal and there isn't anything that is different there across the Nvidia cards. Check your X log files for clues...

Didn't see anything suspicious in the X logs this time around. I bought the 7600 GS because it's in the Dragon, and I figured it would be a hassle-free upgrade.

Decided to try an auto-install instead of an auto-upgrade. No errors, went through mythtv-setup, rebooted, everything comes up fine.

As soon as the system came up, I went immediately to the KnoppMyth Menu | Reboot.

System reboots, instead of loading X, I get the black screen, and the system is locked. CTRL-ALT-F1 does nothing - ssh is down - system is frozen.

I have the following at the end of my /home/mythtv/.xsession-errors file



When I installed the new video card, I also installed another hard drive so I can take advantage of the storage groups. I don't think this is germane to the problem at hand, but thought I should mention it anyway.

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Silverstone LC10|MSI K8N Neo4-F|1GB PC3200|Athlon 64 X2 4200+|NEC 3550A DVD-RW
750GB + 400GB w/Storage Groups|eVGA GeForce 7600 GS w/VGA out to Aquos 32" LCD |PVR-500|PVR-250|SiliconDust HDHomerun

Those are probably either from something that got messed up in your /home/mythtv/.fluxbox/apps or simply because the X server isn't starting properly...
Do this as root to make sure you've cleared the log files and restart your X server::

Hmm.. You know, the version(s) of the pci.ids files I found on the system are a bit old and update-pciids doesn't seem to work right. It might pay to download the latest from here

and put it here:

I can't do this, since the system is completely locked when the black screen appears - I don't have shell access at the terminal or through SSH. Why would apps get messed up on a fresh install? Everything worked fine on my system with the 6200TC... now with the 7600GS, I'm having this problem...



Is there a way to get ethernet running in single user mode so I can do this? Since this exact card is in the Dragon, shouldn't other people be having this issue?

Thanks for your help!

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Silverstone LC10|MSI K8N Neo4-F|1GB PC3200|Athlon 64 X2 4200+|NEC 3550A DVD-RW
750GB + 400GB w/Storage Groups|eVGA GeForce 7600 GS w/VGA out to Aquos 32" LCD |PVR-500|PVR-250|SiliconDust HDHomerun

Boot into single user mode and run

No go... system is still hard-locked after booting. I'll try updating the pci.ids files after a clean install before the first reboot which causes the lockup and will report back.

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Silverstone LC10|MSI K8N Neo4-F|1GB PC3200|Athlon 64 X2 4200+|NEC 3550A DVD-RW
750GB + 400GB w/Storage Groups|eVGA GeForce 7600 GS w/VGA out to Aquos 32" LCD |PVR-500|PVR-250|SiliconDust HDHomerun

After updating pci.ids after a clean install and before the first reboot, I was able to reboot once, but on the second reboot (with no changes made), I was back to the hard locked screen.

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Silverstone LC10|MSI K8N Neo4-F|1GB PC3200|Athlon 64 X2 4200+|NEC 3550A DVD-RW
750GB + 400GB w/Storage Groups|eVGA GeForce 7600 GS w/VGA out to Aquos 32" LCD |PVR-500|PVR-250|SiliconDust HDHomerun

This time, I did an auto-install, updated the pci.ids, and forced the install of the Nvidia driver with

First reboot came up OK. Second reboot and system was locked again.

I'm getting a familiar error which last time you tracked to a bug in the install-nvidia-debian.sh script.

In /home/mythtv/.xsession-errors i see:



I can't figure out why I'm the only one experiencing this when it seems as though the 7600GS is a fairly common card.

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Silverstone LC10|MSI K8N Neo4-F|1GB PC3200|Athlon 64 X2 4200+|NEC 3550A DVD-RW
750GB + 400GB w/Storage Groups|eVGA GeForce 7600 GS w/VGA out to Aquos 32" LCD |PVR-500|PVR-250|SiliconDust HDHomerun

I did



to remove the script from startup, and presto - no more black screen.

There must still be an error in the nvidia install script.

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Silverstone LC10|MSI K8N Neo4-F|1GB PC3200|Athlon 64 X2 4200+|NEC 3550A DVD-RW
750GB + 400GB w/Storage Groups|eVGA GeForce 7600 GS w/VGA out to Aquos 32" LCD |PVR-500|PVR-250|SiliconDust HDHomerun

I'll have a look at it later. It does have some unquoted variables that I was mildly concerned about...

OBTW - You could help with debugging by running the following and reporting the output:

Empty string would confirm my unquoted variable fears...

Ran the script and it replies with

I did force install that version, so it's reporting correctly.

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Silverstone LC10|MSI K8N Neo4-F|1GB PC3200|Athlon 64 X2 4200+|NEC 3550A DVD-RW
750GB + 400GB w/Storage Groups|eVGA GeForce 7600 GS w/VGA out to Aquos 32" LCD |PVR-500|PVR-250|SiliconDust HDHomerun

Actually it reports the version you "should" (in theory) be using, not necessarily the one you actually are.