* Steven Hatfield
Yesterday, I installed the latest drivers from nvidia (1251), got the
But when I log into X, log out, and try to go to a text console, by screen goes either blank of gets strange colors on it. I can't do anything but go back to X and reboot.
I sometimes cannot even get that far, Ctrl-ALt-FX, and then nothing anymore. Repeatable on 6 different (suse) boxes, with different flavours of NVidia cards. This is with both 0.967 and 1.0X, this didn;t happen with an earlier version of their driver (not sure if 0.96 had this problem or not)
I heard people on the list having this problem in the past, but I thought this was fixed from the 1.0 version? Nope
There was a long thread about this within the last 2-5 days. The answer is no but I'm sure that we would love to be proven wrong.
Yes, although I foremost of all would want to get color indexed textures to work again (they work fine in all the 0.X versions).
This is definitely a bug, and we don't know where it comes from... maybe the driver, maybe KDM. Are you getting this behavior using the KDM login manager?
Yeah, with KDM, but I think even with startx I can get this to happen. It's even worse of a geforce2go where a simple Xserver restart (which is what happens after a kde-logout with KDE might hang your machine. Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone +31-10.280.1515 Global Technical Support Fax +31-10.280.1511 Jason Geosystems BV (When calling please note: we are in GMT+1) gdenhollander@jasongeo.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.jasongeo.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, we request that you do not disseminate, forward, distribute or copy this e-mail message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone and destroy the original message.