Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
I am having issues with my new video card MSI 8600GT. Xorg fires up
properly and everything is fine as long as I am within X. The moment
I try to switch one of the VCs (c-a-f1/2 etc) or exit X, all I get is
blank screen and no response from KB/mouse etc. Soon the monitor goes
into power save. The only way to fix is reboot. Occasionally, I will see
blank screen with X running having very similar syptoms.
I have noticed that Xorg runs with almost 100% cpu utilization whenever
blank screen event happens. Also, with my prior card I did not have this
problem (prior card was EVGA nvidia 7600GS)
I run stock etch kenel from amd64 distribution latest xorg with nv
driver. Here is exact info
uname -a: Linux lata 2.6.18-4-amd64 #1 SMP Fri May 4 00:37:33 UTC 2007
x86_64 GNU/Linux
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nv : Version: 1:2.0.3-1
Package: xorg: Version: 1:7.1.0-19
You probably need to think about a different driver. The nvidia-*
packages might be a place to start.
Or, if you want to be a bit risky, the nvidia driver from NVIDA's web
site works well. The risk is that it is not installed "The Debian Way",
and future Debian updates may break it, possibly causing a problem, or
causing you to need to reinstall it. Also, it is finicky about which
version of gcc used to compile the kernel interface (NVIDIA's driver
comes as a a binary blob, and it's non-free in the Debian sense, because
there is no source). You need to keep the version of gcc used to
compile your current running kernel, to use it. It must be reinstalled
with every kernel ABI change, as well. But it works pretty well.
Mark Allums
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