Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-12 Thread Charles A Edwards
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 05:44:27 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I looked at the nvidia errata and FAQ. They have something about laptops but they claim that switching from a graphics display to a text display works ok. Try it using vga=normal. That will be without fb. FB can

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-12 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Charles A Edwards schrieb am Sun, 12 Oct 2003 07:41:33 +: Try it using vga=normal. That will be without fb. That was the first thing I did (and it was also the standard after installation). I already wrote that I tried ALL available settings of 'vga=' in lilo.conf, that included 'normal',

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread HaywireMac
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

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread HaywireMac
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 06:26:39 +0200 Wolfgang Bornath [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: 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. Sorry, went throught the archives back

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread Greg Meyer
On Saturday 11 October 2003 07:25 am, HaywireMac wrote: 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. Are you using 9.2 or 9.1? There is a

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread ed tharp
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 07:25, HaywireMac wrote: 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

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread HaywireMac
On 11 Oct 2003 14:56:38 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: what does his /etc/lilo.conf say about vga=xxx still waiting to hear back on that one. -- HaywireMac Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org ++ Mandrake HowTo's

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
HaywireMac HaywireMac schrieb am Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:46:45 -0400: Sorry, went throught the archives back to September 1st, on Newbie and Expert, can't find it. AFAIR it was a topic in the Mandrake newsgroup but I can't find it at the moment. Try vga=ask, and see what options come up. When

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread mike
Wolfgang Bornath wrote: HaywireMac HaywireMac schrieb am Sat, 11 Oct 2003 09:46:45 -0400: Sorry, went throught the archives back to September 1st, on Newbie and Expert, can't find it. AFAIR it was a topic in the Mandrake newsgroup but I can't find it at the moment. Try vga=ask, and see what

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Greg Meyer schrieb am Sat, 11 Oct 2003 12:52:10 -0400: Are you using 9.2 or 9.1? There is a thread going on Cooker right now about this very problem. Bug number is 4593 if you want to check it out. I'll have a look. Thanks. I'm using 9.2RC2. wobo Want to buy your Pack or Services from

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
mike schrieb am Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:42:08 -0700: Anyways there is an nvidia linux forum that might help. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/ Go to bottom of page and there is linux graphics forum. Theres a thread there subject is (NVDIA and console mode) that might help you. Thanks, will

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
HaywireMac HaywireMac schrieb am Sat, 11 Oct 2003 15:00:24 -0400: On 11 Oct 2003 14:56:38 -0400 ed tharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered: what does his /etc/lilo.conf say about vga=xxx still waiting to hear back on that one. Maybe you did not get my mail I sent to the list yesterday. I did

Re: [expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-11 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
mike schrieb am Sat, 11 Oct 2003 16:42:08 -0700: Anyways there is an nvidia linux forum that might help. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/ Go to bottom of page and there is linux graphics forum. Theres a thread there subject is (NVDIA and console mode) that might help you. This is

[expert] nvidia driver - no console display (urgent help needed)

2003-10-10 Thread Wolfgang Bornath
Hi, 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