* [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and console black screen
@ 2005-10-03 5:27 Brett I. Holcomb
2005-10-03 18:21 ` [gentoo-user] Working for now - " Brett I. Holcomb
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From: Brett I. Holcomb @ 2005-10-03 5:27 UTC (permalink / raw
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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
2005-10-03 5:27 [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and console black screen Brett I. Holcomb
@ 2005-10-03 18:21 ` Brett I. Holcomb
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From: Brett I. Holcomb @ 2005-10-03 18:21 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
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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