[plug] nvidia

[Craig Dyke]

Craig

It would appear that something actually cathces ctrl-alt-delete
as it does appear to go through some motions, which of course
I can't see through black screen.

nv does work but with no glx stuff.

video card:    G-force4 mx440-8x

Craig
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Craig Ringer" <craig at postnewspapers.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 1:52 AM
Subject: Re: [plug] nvidia


> > 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.
> >
> > My only way to get out of this screen is with ctrl-alt-delete which will
> > restart
> > whole pc.
>
> Interesting. When you hit CTL-ALT-DEL, does it take a little while to
> shut down or does it immediately reset? If it takes a minute to shut
> downe, then while XFree has probably mangled your video state,
> everything else is probably working fine. OTOH, if it reboots
> immediately then the kernel isn't catching the CTL-ALT-DEL and something
> has probably died.
>
> What NVidia card are you using, anyway? I always had good results with
> the NVidia cards under Debian - a GeForce2 GTS, a GeForce 4 MX 440, and
> my current GeForce 4200 Ti (now under RH9). All AGP cards, of course.
>
> Also consider trying the 'nv' driver instead of 'nvidia' and see if that
>   works. If it does, then at least you know it's an nvidia-driver
> specific issue.
>
> Craig Ringer
>