i had the same problem, even when i would switch back to VT1 it would be a black screen, so i uesed the drivers from nvidia.com and it worked fine, seems to be a problem in portage
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 14:48 +0100, Jonatan Antoni wrote: > Hy there, > > I'm playing around with the nvidia kernel-modules and glx-drivers for x11 for > a while. > First all works fine, but using mozilla-firefox crashes the x-server after a > while. Let > me give you an example: Running firefox works, going to google as well, but > going to > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Monitors and click the link "4.1 Moving > focus between screens" > hangs the display. I can still move around the mouse-cursor, but everything > else is locked. > > Logging in to my system remotely by ssh, I can find the X-proccess taking > nearly 100 percent > of cpu-time. By restarting xdm the X-system comes back correctly. > > Now I'm back using the default nv-driver of the xorg-project, because that's > the only way of sending > this email without x11 hangs. In the future I want to use the dual-head > function of my geforce fx5200 > for a video-beamer. Is there another way without using the original nvidia > drivers or has somebody > a hint about that nasty error? > > thx, > jonatan > ______________________________________________________________ > Verschicken Sie romantische, coole und witzige Bilder per SMS! > Jetzt bei WEB.DE FreeMail: http://f.web.de/?mc=021193 > -- [email protected] mailing list
