Console corrupted when X is started

[Fatman-UK]

After reluctantly switching from amd64 to i386, I also have garbled consoles. The driver seems fine apart from this one problem when I stop X. I've only noticed it on Ctrl-Alt-F1 or after issuing a "shutdown -p now" command. It looks like the console is still alive but it's so distorted I can't make anything out.

This sync problem wouldn't physically damage an LCD screen, right? I seem to recall CRTs could get severely borked by this sort of thing.

Unfortunately I'm not able to generate a crash dump. Although I can cause what looks like a kernel panic [bold white text, lots of it], I can't be sure because a) I can't make it out and b) it doesn't leave a dump behind for savecore.

So, 'fraid this is the best I can do for now:

% sysctl hw.nvidia.version
hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 100.14.11 Wed Jun 13 15:15:08 PDT 2007

% sysctl hw.nvidia.cards.0.model
hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce Go 7600

% uname -rims
FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p7 i386 SMP-GENERIC

Let me know if any other info would be handy.

Fatman

[EDIT]
ps. please excuse the lack of nvidia-bug-report.log file. I do not seem to have nvidia-bug-report.sh on my system.

[alexdupre]

UP. The bug is still present and I'm open to offer help for debugging/testing.

[alexdupre]

The problem persists with 100.14.19 driver release.
Here is the nvidia-bug-report.log.

[alexdupre]

Same issue with 169.04 beta driver.

[alexdupre]

Still present with 169.07.

[shogun1970]

same issue with 169.09

100.14.19 is ok

[nael]

Originally Posted by shogun1970

same issue with 169.09

100.14.19 is ok

Same issue in 169.09 (GeForce 6200, Linux).
I have to use the 96.31.

It will be fixed someday?

[ulelopippi]

I have the same issue on four pc's:

FX 5700 LE (Slackware)
6600 (SuSE)
6600 GT (Linuxfromscratch)
6800 GT (Linuxfromscratch)

With every driver newer than 1.0-9639, when i pass from X to any TTY, i get corrupted screen (either with VESAFB or with plain VGA): characters are colored blocks.

Despite this, TTY's are still functional (i can blindly type commands).

Any chance to get this corrected in new drivers? In this forum there are lots of posts like this, but no solutions are given.

NVIDIA Men, are you alive?

[inXistant]

Same problem here Linux 169 GeForce 6 series... What is even more annoying is when the monitor awakes after being down, I have the same type of corruption in X that I get into the console!!!