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?

what does his /etc/lilo.conf say about vga=xxx


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