nvidia drivers freeze screen when coming back from console

[ploum]

Hi,

I'm now under debian woody 3.0 for 3 weeks. My duron 800 with a GeForce 2 MX was worked perfectly with nv oss drivers. (I don"t use any games or GL apps for the moment)

I thought that it's interresting to install nvidia drivers, in case I had time to play some games after my exams, but it's really unusable ! ! ! !

My kernel is a self-made 2.4.20 and I have somes (bigs !) troubles with nvidia drivers :

- an awful splashscreen (can I bypass this ?)
- A double-pink cursor in console (instead of the regular white block !)
-A very hard crash when returning from console.

The first point is not really significant, but the third is the worste !
When I'm under console (with my twins pink cursors, beautiful and "different" but not easy to use) and I press alt+F7 to come back to X, my screen freeze with white, grey and blacks lines. It seems that computer is still working, but not screen at all ! (even if I try a console)
I just have to push ctrl+alt+del !

What do you think it's wrong with my configuration ? I use XFree 4 and I recently updated it without any changes...

[bwkaz]

You can bypass the splash screen by adding an Option "NoLogo" "true" in your XF86Config(-4) file. But that's detailed in the README.

For the other problem, when you configured that kernel, did you disable rivafb (Console drivers / Framebuffer support / nVidia Riva support inside menuconfig)? You can't use rivafb and the nVidia drivers at the same time -- if you want a framebuffer console, you have to use vesafb (Console drivers / Framebuffer support / VESA VGA graphics console) instead. Don't worry, it works at least up to 1280x1024 (mode number 794).

[ploum]

you are right ! I have framebuffer with the gforce driver ! ! I will try what you say (oh no, another kernel compile ! ! !) many thanks for help, I was looking on forums and faqs without finding any answer !

[ploum]

It works great ! thank you ! But now, I can't have mplayer playing in fullscreen... do you think it's rekated ?

[bwkaz]

I don't know much about mplayer, so I don't have any idea if it's related.

I do use mplayer, but only in X, at normal (i.e. 100% of original, not fullscreen) size. It works fine for me with that setup (fullscreen is too scaled-up; even with bilinear filtering, it looks non-crisp to me).

Are you running mplayer in X? What -vo option are you using (it's either in the config file, or specified by you on the command line)? You could try -vo xv, or (maybe) -vo gl / -vo gl2.

[ploum]

Thx a lot !

Once again, you are right ! I simply must set vo=xv (it was on vo=x11)

I don't know which is better, but it's really good in xv !


Do you have to enable bilinear filtering ?

You really help me a lot for those problems... Many thanx ! :D I try to help people too ...

[bwkaz]

I haven't seen anywhere to enable it, but if, when you enlarge the picture (to like 2x or even larger), slanted lines look like stairsteps instead of straight lines, then it's probably not enabled. I don't know how to turn it on or off, though -- I'm just fairly sure it exists.