I had already compiled the nVidia driver but had not yet replaced the Driver line in XF86Config with the new driver- the nVidia docs suggested getting the X setup working first with the "nv" driver before switching to theirs. Just for kicks, I tried the nVidia driver, and lo and behold, it works.
> > The symptoms leave me suspecting that the video card is getting switched to > a mode that the monitor cannot support (not hard to do, unfortunately - I > often do it with X and with MS Windows) and that X cannot switch out of > when exiting. But without the details, that can be no more than a vague > guess. For real help, someone else on the list, someone who has actually > used nVidea hardware and drivers, should jump in. > > At 03:46 PM 1/12/03 -0500, Jonathan Kallay wrote: > >Ray, > > Thanks for the response. Here are the answers to your questions, in no > >particular order. > > I changed the vsync and hsync values according to the specs I looked up on > >www.monitorworld.com, which are also consistent with the monitor type: a > >mid-to-low-end 15" monitor. > > > > CTRL-ALT-F* does not work. There are no X processes running- so X did, in > >fact, fail to start. I tried turning off the monitor, disconnecting it from > >the video card, powering it on, turning it off, reconnecting it, and > >powering it on again. The monitor will "click" after a few seconds, as if > >it is going into suspend mode, but the power light won't change to orange. > > > >I can switch to a different virtual terminal, blindly login and type > >commands, and they will work (e.g. shutdown -r now will reboot the machine) > >. So it looks like the display is being knocked out without coming back up > >once X terminates. I am using an NVidia TNT2 video card with the standard > >nv driver. > > [old stuff deleted] > > > > -- > -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
