Aniruddha wrote:
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 insingle 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.
I'm not convinced that it's the proprietary software, per se, that's the problem.
Since things worked before a particular upgrade, I would think it likely that some API in the kernel or some X lib changed in a slightly incompatible way.
If this affects the 'nv' driver, then I'd expect the fix to show up in it, eventually.
-- Bob McGowan
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