On Tuesday 16 September 2003 03:04, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.09.15 at 21:21, Sid Boyce wrote:
Went back to 4363, looked great, but X (and keyboard) lock up with garbled colour full screen after I've left it up for some hours, I then have to issue init 6 by ssh from another box, init 3 does not have any effect. I think I shall try some other values for NvAGP other than 0 and see what happens. Regards Sid.
Er... in this case, as the machine was left alone for a long time, it could be a screen saver that crashed badly. Or something related to sleeping.
If it does it again, instead of init 6, enter "top" as root, or have a look at "ps afx|less", and start killing tasks, one by one. Perhaps you could find the culprit.
Hmmm, in the meantime I found out that unfortunately my "SOLVED" message is not completely correct. ;-( The 4496 driver works perfect under X, but ................ when leaving X, either by going to console mode with CTRL-ALT-F1 .... F6 or when shutting down/rebooting, then I ALWAYS get the garbled colour full screen that Sid is mentioning. This specific phenomenon -- problem -- is already reported multifold by Basil Chupin in this and other threads. I also found various descriptions of the same problem on the Nvidia discussion forum. However a solution is nowhere to be found. Apparently the 4496 driver ruins something in the video controls, which prohibits proper display of non-X screens after leaving X. I wonder why NVidia keeps silent about this; by now they should have recognized these complaints and minimally react in some way. Cheers, -- Jan Elders Nuenen the Netherlands