Re: tty1-6 screwed up
On Friday 30 November 2001 04:01 pm, Casper Gielen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 07:03:21PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote:
> > Shaul Karl wrote:-
> >
> >
> > Like someone else said, it seems to confuse the graphics card (or some
> > part of the kernel, because I noticed when rebooting 8-) that the
> > kernel manages to cure it before shutdown is fully complete).
>
> Many timesa. I hardly leave X anymore because of it (yes I use xterms :)
> Virtually any time X crashes the consoles will no longer be available
> after restarting X. Actually they do respond normally, there's just no
> usable output. I'm using the latest X from unstable + nvidia drivers.
> Restarting X or kdm has no effect whatsover. Switching runlevels doesn't
> work either. The only solution is a reboot :(
hello,
I also encountered problems with nvidia drivers; I can't even reach the
console if I started X (although it's on suse 7.2); use the free drivers
instead (note that you won't get 3d with then), they seem to work nicely.
dragos
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