Dan Svarreby wrote:

I have the latest drivers from Nvidia and from what I can tell there's nothing wrong with my 3D settings (it is enabled and working).

This has happend in many different distros and I don't know what's causing it. When I shut down my OS there's stripes of different colors over the whole screen. I think it appears when the OS is closing/shutting down the X-enviroment.

If any of you'd have a tip or knows how to fix this, please let me know :)

You have a NVidia MX400 or MX440 card and you are trying to use the 5336 driver on an Athlon XP system, right? If you press CTRL-ALT-F1 to F6 you will also get the same "screen of multi-colours", right? Four ways of tackling this: (1) don't use CTRL-ALT-F1 to F6; (2) ignore the multi-stripped-coloured screen on shutdown; (3) go back to the nv driver setting in XF86config file (alter "nvidia" back to "nv"); or (4) get the FX5200 (or higher) video card. If none of the conditions in my para. 1 apply then we go back to the drawing board :-). Cheers. -- I am not young enough to know everything.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Basil Chupin" To: Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: Re: [SLE] Nvidia & stripes (virtual frame buffer?)

Dan Svarreby wrote:

...

I have the latest drivers from Nvidia and from what I can tell there's nothing wrong with my 3D settings (it is enabled and working).

This has happend in many different distros and I don't know what's causing it. When I shut down my OS there's stripes of different colors over the whole screen. I think it appears when the OS is closing/shutting down the X-enviroment.

If any of you'd have a tip or knows how to fix this, please let me know :)

You have a NVidia MX400 or MX440 card and you are trying to use the 5336 driver on an Athlon XP system, right?

If you press CTRL-ALT-F1 to F6 you will also get the same "screen of multi-colours", right?

Four ways of tackling this: (1) don't use CTRL-ALT-F1 to F6; (2) ignore the multi-stripped-coloured screen on shutdown; (3) go back to the nv driver setting in XF86config file (alter "nvidia" back to "nv"); or (4) get the FX5200 (or higher) video card.

If none of the conditions in my para. 1 apply then we go back to the drawing board :-).

Cheers.

Don't be so pessimistic and affirmative. I'd the same problem with GeForce MX440 and FX5900 from MSI. Perhaps due to the Bios tells Nvidia !!!??? The problem is known by Nvidia and will be solved (I hope) in a future release. While waiting don't come back to nv or blackboard. BUT use the former 4620 release from Nvidia, with it there is no framebuffer problem. In order to see how we solved the problem visit : http://www.nvnews.net -> forum -> Linux and nvidia graphics. If the 4620 release is no longer available on the nvidia site : http://www.nvidia.com you can get it for kernet 2.4 or kernel 2.6 at : http://www.minion.de Good luck and ready to help you again. Michel.

-- I am not young enough to know everything.

-- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com