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...
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?
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. -- Mark Hounschell dmarkh@cfl.rr.com
On Friday 01 June 2001 06:23 am, Mark Hounschell wrote:
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?
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.
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? Thanks, Steven
* 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.
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
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...
Also using 1251 version
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.
When I switch from X to VC1 (CTL-ALT-F1) my screen is also either black or has garbled white areas. Here is what I do. When I frist boot I login to VC1 and run /usr/bin/savetextmode. I do not logout. Whenever I switch to VC1 and it is messed up I run /usr/bin/textmode. This seems to solve the console problem for me. One problem I have not been able to solve yet (don't know it it nVidia or kdm) is X locking and loosing the mouse and keyboard. This has happened three time in the last couple of months since I installed the nVidia card and driver. In this case I had to hit the reset button. Anyway, hope the savetextmode and textmode commands solve part of your problem. Terry
From Terry Eck to Guy Van Sanden and SuSE about Re: [SLE] Latest nvidia drivers:
Whenever I switch to VC1 and it is messed up I run /usr/bin/textmode. This seems to solve the console problem for me. One problem I have not been able to solve yet (don't know it it nVidia or kdm) is X locking and loosing the mouse and keyboard. This has happened three time in the last couple of months since I installed the nVidia card and driver. In this case I had to hit the reset button. I had this too, the only thing I could do was logging in from my router and rebooting my computer. It doesn't happen with me since i switch off agp (option "NvAGP" "0"). The cool thing is, if I need agp (for QuakeIII), I use startq (guess what the q is for (c: ) which is a script I wrote. It's similar to startx but uses another display number, looks for the windowmanager in .qinitrc and uses another XF86Config file, in which I left AGP switched on. If I start X with startx, agp is off (cat /proc/nv/card0). If I then switch back to textmode and startq, agp is on (for both X'es of course), if I then leave the window manager I use for startq, it's off again. Very cool. :)
hth,
Anyway, hope the savetextmode and textmode commands solve part of your problem.
Terry
-- dieter
Terry Eck wrote:
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...
Also using 1251 version
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.
When I switch from X to VC1 (CTL-ALT-F1) my screen is also either black or has garbled white areas.
Here is what I do. When I frist boot I login to VC1 and run /usr/bin/savetextmode. I do not logout. Whenever I switch to VC1 and it is messed up I run /usr/bin/textmode. This seems to solve the console problem for me. One problem I have not been able to solve yet (don't know it it nVidia or kdm) is X locking and loosing the mouse and keyboard. This has happened three time in the last couple of months since I installed the nVidia card and driver. In this case I had to hit the reset button.
Anyway, hope the savetextmode and textmode commands solve part of your problem.
Terry
Happened to me too, but they whole things locked up and I tried to be clever (I have ResierFS, reboots are not so bad), but I thought I'd ssh in and then reboot it via the via, well I was so tired I entered the wrong password to get onto the workstation, su'd to root and typed reboot. Unfortuantly it was the server that got rebooted. Almost 30 days uptime went down the drain. Just thought I'd share that, {When tired do not play with server, bad things will come of it". Word of wisdom for the day. Matt
Terry Eck wrote:
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...
Also using 1251 version
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.
When I switch from X to VC1 (CTL-ALT-F1) my screen is also either black or has garbled white areas.
Here is what I do. When I frist boot I login to VC1 and run /usr/bin/savetextmode. I do not logout. Whenever I switch to VC1 and it is messed up I run /usr/bin/textmode. This seems to solve the console problem for me. One problem I have not been able to solve yet (don't know it it nVidia or kdm) is X locking and loosing the mouse and keyboard. This has happened three time in the last couple of months since I installed the nVidia card and driver. In this case I had to hit the reset button.
Anyway, hope the savetextmode and textmode commands solve part of your problem.
It's worth noting that textmode and savetextmode are part of the svgalib package, which isn't installed by default. Paul
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