Re: TTY 1 to 6 are garbled
On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:07 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:
> I've just returned (Friday) from a week away, during which my system was
> shut down. On restarting, I took advantage and did an update/upgrade in
> single user mode, which included a reboot due to kernel upgrade.
>
> On rebooting to multiuser mode, my screens were also all messed up (even
> less "readable", though I could tell where the login prompt was due to
> the higher brightness).
>
> I have an nVidia "NV40GL [Quadro FX 4000] (rev a1)", per the output of
> 'lspci', and I'm using the proprietary nVidia driver.
>
> Your suggestion to update the ATI driver prompted me to update the
> nVidia driver on my system, and that did indeed fix the problem.
>
> Thanks,
>
Good to hear it also worked for you! Still I find it strange that we
must rely on proprietary software to get the display functioning.
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Regards,
Aniruddha
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