Linux&NVIDIA

[mesbaba8]

i've installed NVidia drivers on my RedHat7.3,i've done everything what the Readme file says,(ive installed the drivers which NVchooser says).Now i can see the NVIDIA logo on login screen,X,KDE and GNOME is working,i can play games but when i press ctrl+alt+F1 it goes to blank screen. i've modified XF86module-4 according to Nvidias readme(file name may not be exact), am i have to modify XF86module file too? if yes how? please help.

[Andy Mecham]

The console not restoring on a VT switch is a known bug we're looking into. What card are you using? What video bios does it have? (You can find the vbios by looking at /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 while in X)

--andy

[shrek2099]

Yes!!!!

Exactly the problem I ran into. Switching back from nvidia-powered X to console will hang up my monitor. I even tried remove the following kernel options from default kernel configuration of redhat 9.0:

1) Frame buffer support
2) Video mode selection support
3) Advanced Power Management support

BUT NONE of them work!!

My system is: Dell Dimension 8200, RedHat 9.0, GeForce4 MX420 64MB Memeory, Dell P780 monitor (detected by redhat-config-xfree86). My /proc/driver/nvidia/cards/0 is the following:

Model: GeForce4 MX 420
IRQ: 3
Video BIOS: 04.17.00.45.42
Card Type: AGP

So any ideas??? Thanks!

[bahamot]

same here
Model: GeForce4 Ti 4800 SE
IRQ: 11
Video BIOS: 04.28.20.21.00
Card Type: AGP

anyway sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn't work

[mesbaba8]

im using Tornado gf4 mx440 64 mb DDR.

in my XFcon...-4 file, thera are some lines like

...

mode 1400x1050 ........


...
...
...

all lines are only 1400x1050.

but i want 1024x768,so i changed them but still doesnt work:(


am i must update my card bios?

[Andy Mecham]

mesbaba8: Can you post your XF86Config-4 and /var/log/XFree86.0.log files?

--andy

[mesbaba8]

1st of all thanks to andy for help.
2nd i thought that it will be better to put the files to a web site then posting them here,so you can see them at

http://www.geocities.com/mesbaba8


(the site is only for these xf86config-4 and log files)

[Andy Mecham]

mesbaba8: According to your log, you're using 1024x768. Is this what you wanted?

The VT switching bug is still being looked into.

--andy

[mesbaba8]

no,i want my console back.

ok,ill be waiting for patch.