James wrote: >On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:42:35 -0400 (EDT) >[EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority > >>On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, civileme wrote: >> >>>Well, it sounds like you are using the latest commercial NVidia >>>drivers. >>> >>Yes -- acceleration works perfectly and gears is a blur. :) >> >>>Framebuffer is not well supported by NVidia or their drivers. All I >>>see on booting framebuffer with an NForce chipset is the blue bar >>>along the bottom, though framebuffer worked outstandingly for the >>>install. With XFree drivers I get good framebuffer results except >>>when switching out to console where the vga= has been lost. >>> >>>This isn't apparently a fixable problem without some better tech >>>info from NVidia. >>> >>I was afraid of that. The annoying thing is that I can't seem to even >>disable fb completely. If I specify vga=none in lilo.conf, the machine >>will still boot with a fb logo in the top left. The first time I'd >>thought that maybe I'd forgotten to rerun lilo, but this was not the >>case. I then tried rebuilding a kernel with fb completely disabled. >>No logo, but X refuses to start with "No screens found" errors. >> >>The reason this is so annoying is that I spend 90% of my time on the >>console and because this works on all the other machines, I often find >>myself pressing CTL-ALT-Fx to get a quick shell. I even considered >>building only a serial console so that there were no consoles... >> > >My box boots without framebuffer (different video card) and the setting >I use in lilo.conf is vga=normal .... rather than vga=none..... could >help? > >James > >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > You should(tm) have a linux-nonfb choice in the boot menu. It runs without framebuffer and has an _informative_ startup scroll.
Civileme
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