Guy Van Sanden wrote:
Hello
Yesterday, I installed the latest drivers from nvidia (1251), got the SuSE RPM's of their site, and an hour or 2 later, I was up and running...
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 heard people on the list having this problem in the past, but I thought this was fixed from the 1.0 version?
Any other victims? Or anyone know a fix...
I'm another victim and I know of two others on this list who have encountered the same problem but just chose to live with it. The only thing I can suggest is sending a note to linux-bugs@nvidia.com and another one to feedback@suse.de. I'm 99% sure that there's nothing you can do about it yourself, so don't drive yourself crazy looking for a solution that doesn't exist. The more people that nvidia hears from, the more likely they are to solve the problem. I'll bet you're using either kdm or xdm. If you use gdm, you probably won't have the problem. But gdm is far less hospitable than kdm. As a stopgap, you might try rebooting whenever you need to log out. Or, while you're still within the first login, if you want to log in as someone else, go to a virtual terminal and log in using startx -- :1 which will create another graphic virtual terminal, accessible via Alt-Ctl-F8. Paul