[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and console black screen

[gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and console black screen

[Brett I. Holcomb]

I've searched bugzilla, the forums, google and I can't find anything that 
helps although I've tried several things.

I have installed a system from stage 1 and have it running.  I emerged the 
nvidia-kernel and glx drivers and set up xorg.conf. Xorg.conf works with 
the nv driver and works with the nvidia driver.  I can startx fine (I am 
booting to default command line right now and then run startx) and I get 
my X display and xfce4 running.  However, when I exit xfce4 and go back to 
the console the screen is black and I can never get it to display.  I am 
using vesafg-tng - no rivafb.  I have agpgart as a module.

I remember a thread on it but can't find it and can't remember what the 
problem was.  The crazy thing is that this system worked before with 
nvidia and the same card.  I had to do a rebuild due to disk problems.

I tried the stable and the ~x86 nvidia-* also.

Any ideas would be appreciated.



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Re: [gentoo-user] Working for now - Nvidia drivers and console black screen

[Brett I. Holcomb]

For the record in case this helps someone.  After more searching I found 
this post which has a script that creates the 
nvidia /dev entries. It appears for some reason that udev is not doing it. 
I'm using udev 068-r1 which is latest stable and changelog does not 
mention any nvidia fixes in newer versions.  A search for udev+nvidia 
turned up others with the trouble.

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-375466.html



On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:

> I've searched bugzilla, the forums, google and I can't find anything that 
> helps although I've tried several things.
>
> I have installed a system from stage 1 and have it running.  I emerged the 
> nvidia-kernel and glx drivers and set up xorg.conf. Xorg.conf works with the 
> nv driver and works with the nvidia driver.  I can startx fine (I am booting 
> to default command line right now and then run startx) and I get my X display 
> and xfce4 running.  However, when I exit xfce4 and go back to the console the 
> screen is black and I can never get it to display.  I am using vesafg-tng - 
> no rivafb.  I have agpgart as a module.
>
> I remember a thread on it but can't find it and can't remember what the 
> problem was.  The crazy thing is that this system worked before with nvidia 
> and the same card.  I had to do a rebuild due to disk problems.
>
> I tried the stable and the ~x86 nvidia-* also.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>
>
>

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