[wellylug] Nvidia driver problems with Redhat 9

[Ilia Pavlenko]

Is your text console a framebuffer one ? (like 132x50 characters...with
Tux-logo on top when you boot etc.)

When you reboot - catch the LILO prompt (press Scroll-Lock, or shift etc
on Boot: propmt), then type label of your boot kernel and "vga=normal"
- it should boot into 80x25 text mode screen.

See if that 80x25 screen becomes trashed after starting and closing X. If
it doesn't - it means your text-mode framebuffer "driver" (kernel module,
that supports framebuffer text modes) mignt need to be recompiled. If
nothing esle helps - put "vga=normal" into your /etc/lilo.conf and re-run
lilo.

Have a lot of fun :)

Ilia

On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Jamie Dobbs wrote:

> I have just installed Redhat 9 and have installed the NVidia drivers
> (via the file NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-4496-pkg2.run downloaded from the
> Nvidia website).
> The driver works wonderfully  in X and X is very much faster, but
> whenever I exit from X I get screen corruption (looks kinda like
> colourful static, but not all over the screen) and I cannot get the
> console screen back without rebooting.
> Can anyone suggest what the problem might be? I've made the Nvidia
> recommended changes to the /etc/X11/XF86Config file (but I guess thats
> obvious as the driers do work until I exit X).
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