Artifact on screen when leaving X?

[douga]

I'm using the newest nvidia driver on my machine with Slackware 8.1. I have the kernel compiled to NOT use AGP, and I don't have any AGP settings in my XF86Config. I DO have glx loaded.

When I exit X, I sometimes get a rectangle of color in the lower right hand quarter or eighth of the screen. If I then startx again, I rectangle may move, but it doesn't go away. I'm using the Riva TNT card that came with my Dell (about two years old, I think).

Anyone seen anything like this?

Thanks for any help.

[michal017]

I'm seeing a similar problem.. when leaving X (sometimes) I have sort of shadow on the screen so I can't see the console.

Some guy suggested to 'reset the DRI (or was it Xv?) memory space correctly' but I don't know how to do that ;)

[douga]

Originally posted by michal017
I'm seeing a similar problem.. when leaving X (sometimes) I have sort of shadow on the screen so I can't see the console.

Some guy suggested to 'reset the DRI (or was it Xv?) memory space correctly' but I don't know how to do that ;)

I found *a* solution to this problem, but I don't know if it's *the* solution.

First off, I had to load the nvidia module last in rc.modules. Then, I set NvAGP to "1" in my XF86Config, and recompiled my kernel so that it didn't support AGP.

As far as the DRI goes, I know that if you have a line that says "load dri" in your XF86Config, you should comment it out.