DISPLAY FAILS WHEN - SUDO ENVY

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:03 am

sudo envy which started the envy program in text mode.

If you don't have the latest version of envy you are logged out to a tty.
But did you get a completely black screen?

telic · Post by **telic** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:30 am

Next thing I did was start sudo envy which started the envy program in text mode. As soon as I selected "1" which is for NVIDIA Drivers....... my display crashed to black screen.

Envy sometimes has problems with the command shell that Bianca inherits from Ubuntu Edgy.

Type this in Terminal, then retry Envy...

sudo bash
rm /bin/sh
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
exit

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Boo · Post by **Boo** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:06 pm

ooooh that is a bit harsh on /bin/sh.
why not just move it and then create a link.

sudo bash
mv /bin/sh /bin/sh.old
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
exit

just in case you want it back sometime.

Boo · Post by **Boo** » Mon Apr 16, 2007 11:58 pm

well i hope you are running envy in a terminal session (Ctl-Alt-F1).
doing it from the desktop in a terminal window causes bad stuff to happen.

your xorg.conf file is using the basic nvidia driver (nv) no 3d.
there are some double or triple repeated entries in there.
the modules section may have conflicting modules.

Husse · Post by **Husse** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:57 am

I agree with Boo there are sections that are repeated, you have the driver nv on a new card that is identified a bit odd "NVIDIA Corporation NVIDIA Default Card".
This is also odd: cp: cannot stat `/etc/X11/xorg.conf': No such file or directory There is such a file.....
You seem to use the option -g for envy (run in the GUI)
Try to change to text mode (ctrl+alt+F1) and run envy
Paste the output of lsmod, there may be some module to many loaded