Re: My nVidia folly :(
Using framebuffer (nVidia Riva support) in your kernel? That's what gave me
all my probs with console lockups. Soon as I took it out of the kernel,
everything worked great.
Peter.
On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:25, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I admit it, lured by the promise of a faster screensaver I installed
> the closed source nVidia GL libraries and modules, and now I'm
> suffering for it.
>
> My GL screen hacks are running 4x faster, but I can't switch virtual
> terminals and am limited to a single running Xsession (I usually have
> three or four open for other member of my household).
>
> If I CTRL-ALT-F<n> all I get is noise, *sometimes* I can get back to X
> sometimes I can't. If I actually close X my console is locked, so I'm
> forced to run a display manager to respawn X.
>
> I sould probably just reinstal the packages nVidia has stomped on and
> repent of my proprietary ways, but has anyone else experienced this
> and know a different fix?
>
> I'm running sid with:
> 2.4.14-686-smp (debian official)
> xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-9
> nVidia Corporation Riva TnT [NV04] (rev 04) (PCI)
> Dual PPro 200Mhz 256M
>
> and the evil:
> NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541
> NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541
>
> Interesting dmesg stuff:
> Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 32 to 1
> Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 64 to 2
> Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 96 to 3
>
> Shamefully yours,
> -Jon
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