Switching from X to console results in black console in 169.07

[codermotor]

Sorry I guess I didn't pay attention too well to that part of your post. At least Nvidia has apparenlty fixed that problem.

But I still consider that, since the problem I described still exists (on many systems), their driver still appears badly broken.

[slango]

Codermotor,

First, have you heard or found anything more about this issue? I seem to be experiencing the same problem as you, but I have a question: when your system idles, does your screen go black and you cannot resume without restarting X? I'm getting that along with everything you described, and I'm wondering if they are two issues occurring independently of one another, or caused by the same problem.

[clemmy]

Originally Posted by codermotor

My symptoms are:
o After starting X (via startx), either switching to a console, or upon
exiting X, the console is black.
o The system is still responsive (i.e. the CLI works).
o Switching back to X (Alt+F7) displays GUI (desktop)
o Resolution: reboot system.
o Prevention: use NV driver

same problem with 171.06beta (and lower drivers)
ubuntu8.04

Linux laptop 2.6.24-12-generic #1 SMP Wed Mar 12 22:31:43 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  171.06  Wed Feb 20 09:02:26 PST 2008
GCC version:  gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu4)

[gimli84]

This old problem is still here, with standard framebuffer (800x600?), with 1024x768 (vga=791), after suspend to RAM...

• NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.08-pkg1.run (BETA) and lower
• 6200 GO (VAIO VGN-FS295XP)
• Xorg 1.4.0.90 (1.4.1~git20080131-3)
• Debian Sid i386(i686) with custom kernel 2.6.24.4 (same problem with official 2.6.24-1-686)

Last working version NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9631 (~december 2006, with 3D rendering lacks and other problems).