Re: X bother consoles

[maderios <maderios@gmail.com>]

On 06/21/2011 01:27 PM, Camaleón wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 20:33:08 +0200, maderios wrote:
>
> > After changing my hardware, a curious problem appeared with Wheezy and
> > Squeeze.
>
> I would be nice that you tell us what piece of hardware did you change. I
> can guess it's the VGA card but it can be a fan or your sata dvd
> recorder, who knows :-P
Hi
I changed everything (P8P67 motherboard, Intel CoreI7, ....) except 
keyboard, mouse and screen
> > When starting X from a console, the space of the other consoles seem
> > "zoomed": the bottom of the console is not visible but I can always
> > return the data from the keyboard, "blindly". The command 'setupcon'
> > restores the normal console  but when I restart X, console is disturbed
> > again. The graphic card is a Nvidia Quadro600 so I tested kernel mode
> > setting with the driver 'Nouveau': no problem.
>
> You mean that nouveau driver works fine?
It works fine with KMS, but it doesnt when KMS is disabled.

> > The console doesnt seem disturbed because of the framebuffer ..... By
> > cons, as I have not intend to use Nouveau driver, I would like consoles
> > back normal. I tested also with another graphics card (MatroxP690, vesa
> > driver), same problem.
> > I dont  understand how  X server can change the consoles display.
>
> Whatever X driver is in use it takes control of it, for the good and the
> bad :-(
>
> > Thank you for any help, ideas / suggestions on this oddity. Maderios
>
> So let's recap.
>
> You want to use nvidia closed driver and get it to work on terminal
> consoles, right?
>
> As you already have found the culprit (nvidia driver) and given that this
> closed driver is completey up to nvidia, I would start by using the most
> up-to-date version (275.09.07) and search in Google about similar cases,
> like these, to find a possible workaround:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/45929/virtual-terminals-messed-up-with-proprietary-nvidia-graphics-driver
>
> Giving a whirl to Xorg logs may also help.
>
> Greetings,
As I said above, I tested also with a Matrox P690 PCIe (+vesa driver) 
graphic card and I got exactly same display problem => the problem is 
not with the nvidia driver
Greatings
Maderios