Re: X bother consoles
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:37:21 +0200, maderios wrote:
> On 06/21/2011 01:27 PM, Camaleón wrote:
>> 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
> I changed everything (P8P67 motherboard, Intel CoreI7, ....) except
> keyboard, mouse and screen
Oh... more items than I thought.
>> You mean that nouveau driver works fine?
> It works fine with KMS, but it doesnt when KMS is disabled.
When you disabled KMS, what driver was loading the X server?
>> 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.
>>
>>
> As I said above, I tested also with a Matrox P690 PCIe (+vesa driver)
Why vesa? Matrox cards should have their own set of X drivers.
> graphic card and I got exactly same display problem => the problem is
> not with the nvidia driver
The problem can be present with both, vesa and nvidia.
Nothing useful at logs?
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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