Re: nVidia console terminals blank.
On 24. January 2004 at 6:30PM -0500,
Rajesh Menon <prm225@nyu.edu> wrote:
> Hi, again. I have the 4496 nVidia drivers installed on my
> debian sid running XF86 version 4.2.1.1 After startx, all the
> console terms from F1..6 are just blank (well, a nice glow is
> there at the bottom, but blank nonetheless). Anyone had a
> similar problem here, and found out a fix for this? Thanks,
> again.
Generally speaking, X has nothing to do with the console (ALT +
F#). The nVidia driver has a kernel part and an X part. Are you
running a self-built linux 2.6 kernel? You might want to check
your frame buffer compile options. Some OPTION= names changed
between 2.4 and 2.6.
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