I don't use nVidea stuff myself, so I don't know whether "the standard nv driver" means the binary-only one that nVidea provides or the Open Source one someone else now ships. Either, I'm told, can be the source of problems ... the one from nVidea doesn't get satisfactorily updated, and the Open Source one suffers from a lack of cooperation from nVidea.
The symptoms leave me suspecting that the video card is getting switched to a mode that the monitor cannot support (not hard to do, unfortunately - I often do it with X and with MS Windows) and that X cannot switch out of when exiting. But without the details, that can be no more than a vague guess. For real help, someone else on the list, someone who has actually used nVidea hardware and drivers, should jump in.
At 03:46 PM 1/12/03 -0500, Jonathan Kallay wrote:
Ray, Thanks for the response. Here are the answers to your questions, in no particular order. I changed the vsync and hsync values according to the specs I looked up on www.monitorworld.com, which are also consistent with the monitor type: a mid-to-low-end 15" monitor.CTRL-ALT-F* does not work. There are no X processes running- so X did, in fact, fail to start. I tried turning off the monitor, disconnecting it from the video card, powering it on, turning it off, reconnecting it, and powering it on again. The monitor will "click" after a few seconds, as if it is going into suspend mode, but the power light won't change to orange. I can switch to a different virtual terminal, blindly login and type commands, and they will work (e.g. shutdown -r now will reboot the machine) . So it looks like the display is being knocked out without coming back up once X terminates. I am using an NVidia TNT2 video card with the standard nv driver.
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