** Description changed: affected machine: Pentium 4 with GPU NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 NVIDIA driver version: 173.14.16 VBIOS Version: 04.31.20.40.00 Bus Type: AGP 8X Ubuntu version: 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) After initial installation of the ubuntu everything was OK (except that there no advanced XServer features are available). Afterwards I activated the proprietary accelerated NVIDIA Xserver (marked as "recommended") . It started to work without any complaints. However the text console became an unusable mixture of colors and text: Most of the screen area covered by a colour rectangle hiding most of eventual text. The login/password prompt shown twice: in the upper left corner and in the lower right corner. Practically unusable. Each of the 6 text consoles (accessible by Ctrl-Alt-F<n>) equally affected. The problem is the same after every boot of the machine. In graphical sessions everything looks fine (GoogleEarth works, for example). + + [lspci] + 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 655 Host [1039:0655] (rev 50) + Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:80aa] + 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV31 [GeForce FX 5600] [10de:0312] (rev a1) + Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:9123]
-- XServer acceleration (NVIDIA 173) turns text console into unusable mess https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420685 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
