Your message dated Fri, 09 Apr 2010 01:41:32 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#569545: nvidia-kernel: vbemode is not properly
restored in tty
has caused the Debian Bug report #569545,
regarding nvidia-kernel: vbemode is not properly restored in tty
to be marked as done.
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Package: nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686
Version: 173.14.09+3+lenny1
Severity: normal
File: nvidia-kernel
Description: screen will flicker when switched to tty.
I suspect it is because that vbemode is not restored properly.
( I am not sure if this is a bug of nvidia-glx or nvidia-kernel,
please currect me if I am wrong. )
Known work-arounds:
A)
Run the following command every time switching to tty from X:
vbetool vbemode set `vbetool vbemode get`
B)
Download and install NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.70.33-pkg1.run from nvidia
website
Additional Information:
Output from lspci:
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150
Go] (rev a2)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686 depends on:
ii linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 2.6.26-21 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20080825+1 NVIDIA binary kernel module common
nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686 recommends no packages.
nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-2-686 suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 177.80-1
> Description: screen will flicker when switched to tty.
> I suspect it is because that vbemode is not restored properly.
>
> ( I am not sure if this is a bug of nvidia-glx or nvidia-kernel,
> please currect me if I am wrong. )
>
> Known work-arounds:
> A)
> Run the following command every time switching to tty from X:
>
> vbetool vbemode set `vbetool vbemode get`
>
> B)
> Download and install NVIDIA-Linux-x86-177.70.33-pkg1.run from nvidia
> website
If B solves the problem, that means the bug was fixed in subsequent
releases of the NVIDIA drivers than the version released with lenny. I'm
therefore closing this bug with the appropriate versioning so that the bug
tracking system knows that it's fixed in current Debian unstable. (It
will realize that the bug is still open in the lenny version.)
Unfortunately, it's fairly unlikely that there will be an update of these
packages for lenny due to the limited resources available to maintain
them, but this problem should be gone in the upcoming squeeze release.
--
Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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