Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-xorg (44 mails)

[Colin Pinkney <suse-xfree86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 28 Sep 2004 20:00, David Quental wrote:
> Hello to the list.
Hi

> I use SuSE 9.1 and it works very fine. Some time ago I got new nvidia
> driver and installed it without problems, I got 3D without problems and
> all fine, problem is when I went to console (Crtl+ALT+F1 or F2) all is
> in blue, after some time all consoles were corrupted.
>
> How can I solve my problem with consoles???

I have the exact same Nvidia card, although I only have SuSE 9.0, but I had a 
similar problem. If I switched between consoles 1-6 and X four times then X 
Windows would lockup and I would have to login remotely from another box and 
kill X because I couldn't even switch to the consoles after that.

The problem went away when I upgraded to the Nvidia driver v1.0.6111 as you 
have, plus I upgraded X Windows to X.org using these packages:

ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/X/Xorg/Xorg-2004-03-18/i386

Personally, I would recommend this version of X.org over the newer packages 
because the latest seem to be unstable and these are a straight forward 
upgrade of the existing X packages. Just download them to an empty directory 
and run 'rpm -Uvh *.rpm' in that directory as root. (Remember to 
backup /etx/X11/XF86Config first if you have a good setup so you can replace 
it after installing the RPMs)

Hope that solves your problem too. And you can always go back to the SuSE X 
packages if not.

> System is:
> SuSE 9.1
> amd computer at 2000 mhz ram 512
> harddisk 40 gigas
> nvidia GeForce2 MX/MX 400 (nv)
> monitor samsung samtron 55E (PLUS) [28-61 khz / 50-120 hz]
>
> Last nvidia driver is:
> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6111-pkg1.run

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Colin Pinkney
http://www.cpinkney.org.uk