Re: nvidia-drivers in testing
If either of you have rivafb support compiled into your kernels (or are
loading them as modules), you might want to avoid that. It's a known issue
with rivafb and Nvidia's binary-only drivers for X to lock on exit.
Rumours are that vesafb works just fine, though.
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Dan Chen crimsun@email.unc.edu
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On Sun, 28 Oct 2001, Martin Kacerovsky wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just installed nvidia-kernel 1.0.1541-2 and nvidia-glx 1.0.1541
> > the debian way.
> >
> > I am running testing with xfree 4.1.0-8
> >
> > I have a RIVA TNT2 Card.
> >
> > With the new drivers I can not exit from gnome. And I cannot shutdown
> > anymore!
> >
> > With 1251 I have no problems.
> >
> > When I install the drivers the nvidian-way, download and make, I had
> > the same problems. So it's perhaps not a debian problem.
> >
> > So I'll use the old drivers again.
> > Any betters ideas?
> >
> > TIA
> > juh
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> Hi,
> I am also using version 1251, better I haven't tested,
> but just after installation of the drivers I normally started X
> but when I shut it down there was a 2/3 of the screen covered by
> some "picture" it was whole green and seems to be some photograph
> of some people ...and I must restart to get it out( startx didn't help,
> rmmod NVdriver didn't help..) but it haven't appeared anymore....
> Did you experienced it too? i have RivaTNT2Pro
> modules I'm loading in XF86Config:
> ddc,dbe,extmod,glx,pex5,record,xie,bitmap,freetype,speedo,type1,vbe,int10
>
> Bye
>
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