https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477558 Summary: problem with Nvidia driver for Geforce 6600 (screen all white with actual screen behind) Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: openSUSE 11.1 Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: X.Org AssignedTo: bnc-team-xorg-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: Ulrich.Windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de QAContact: xorg-maintainer-bugs@forge.provo.novell.com Found By: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081213 SUSE/1.1.14-0.1 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 In openSUSE 11.1 (as compared to 11.0) the X11 server has a problem with the Nvidia Geforce 6600: If a specific user logs in using GNOME, the screen changes to be completely white. It does not happen for another user. So I guess the effect may be related to the use of some desktop effect. When the screen is in that state, "zapping the server" does not help, just as Ctrl+Alt+F1 does not cleanly restore a text console (If started with "vga=normal" the screen is still graphics, but divided into four quarters, where the above two of them resemble the text console's content). The only thing you can do then is to enter some commands blindly (to reboot). Having investigated the Xorg's log a bit, I found some astonishing messages, one of them not knowing the vendor ID of Nvidia (even though "lspci" knows the card). However there are no real error messages in the log. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. A specific user using GNOME logs in (via gdm) Actual Results: The screen almost immediately turns white Expected Results: The GNOME desktop should appear The problem seems to be within the X server. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.