On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 06:26:39 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:
> Just installed the current NVIDIA drivers from the NVIDIA site. > Everything works good (3D games, mplayer videos). > > I have a laptop with GeForce4 and the problem is that since I > installed the nvidia driver I can't switch to tty1-6. I mean, I can > switch to the console with Ctrl-Alt-Fn but there's nothing displayed > there. > > I can blindly login and go back to tty7 and the /var/log/messages > tells me that I logged in on tty1 (or 2-5). But the screen is dark. > > I tried all kinds of "vga=xxx" in my lilo.conf but after the nvidia > driver is loaded my console screen is dark. When I disable the nvidia > driver everything is ok on console. I'm almost positive there was a thread on this just a short while ago, and I do believe that was the crux of the problem. IIRC, it involved disabling FrameBuffer mode altogether, but I may be wrong. > Is there a way out of this? I'll have to do a presentation of Linux > features tonight and I'd really like to show the console benefits but > I have to keep the nvidia driver because those guys are also gamers. I'll take a quick look through the archives for ya, I owe ya one... ;-) -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mandrake HowTo's & More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. -- Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad"
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