[plug] nvidia

Craig Dyke grail at westnet.com.au
Sat Aug 16 23:27:14 WST 2003


John

I am building from source.
And, no other option but ctrl-alt-delete seems to work.
HAve tried all options to get back to a console with zero
success.

Craig
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Knight" <anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] nvidia


> Nvidia glx and driver stuff? does this mean you're using the .rpms? If so,
> use the latest drivers, not the rpm stuff and if you're using something
like
> SuSE, they have some weirdo stop-gap .rpms available, get rid of them too.
I
> chopped it out below, but can't you go ctrl-alt-f1 to f6 and kill x or
> reboot by command line?
>
> Make lunch, not war.
>
>
> >My problem is that whenever I install the nvidia glx & driver stuff and
> >then fire off X, my scrren goes black and then I get a half white & red
> >cursor square cursor in top left corner and some garbage in bottom
> >right.
> >
> >
> >Other things I did try was using the option of NvAgp.
> >
>
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