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 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 there's nothing displayed > > there. > > > > I can blindly login and go back to tty7 and the /var/log/messages > > tells me that I logged in on tty1 (or 2-5). But the screen is dark. > > > > 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. > > 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. > > > Is there a way out of this? I'll have to do a presentation of Linux > > features tonight and I'd really like to show the console benefits but > > I have to keep the nvidia driver because those guys are also gamers. > > I'll take a quick look through the archives for ya, I owe ya one... ;-) Just one?
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