[wellylug] Nvidia driver problems with Redhat 9

[Jamie Dobbs]

On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:09, Ilia Pavlenko wrote:
> 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.

You're right, that fixed it (being in "normal" VGA mode). Now all I have
to do is work out how to recompile the framebuffer module (I'm not that
familiar with RedHat) and hopefully I should be able to get everything
back up and running how I like it again.

- Jamie -