found 400189 1:1.2.0-3 found 400189 1:2.0.2-1 thanks On Wednesday 09 May 2007 07:01, Brice Goglin wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Several months ago, you reported a bug to the Debian BTS regarding the > nv driver and X server making virtual terminals unusable on a nVidia > 6800GS board. Did you reproduce this problem recently? With the latest > xserver-xorg-video-nv driver 2.0.2 in unstable? > > thanks, > Brice
Hi Brice Ok. I rebuilt the 2.0.2-1 source package on Etch and installed/tested on Etch. (Let me know if you expect this to be fixed in conjunction with other packages from unstable). The bug is still present. (I also checked 1.2.0-3 which shipped with Etch). Symptoms are now slightly different. vt7 shows a series of vertical line segments of various colours (some of which alternate colours about twice a sec). The line segment pattern often repeat at about 6-8 pixels wide. There are 25 line segments vertically. The monitor doesn't recognise the mode and reports 35.4kHz 78 Hz. (Normal is 1600x1200 106.2kHz 84Hz. From the xorg.0.log I think it's picking the same mode as the nvidia driver, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ). vt1-6 shows `grey' on black. (the `grey' is probably the same brightness as normal non-highlighted console text). The character map is very wrong. None of the characters resemble anything I can recognise. Input works, but text is unreadable. The monitor reports 720 x 400, 31.5kHz 70Hz, which is normal. vt8-12 also show a similar pattern, although all the cells show the pattern used for space on vt1-6. Also note. If I boot with the nvidia driver in xorg.conf, then switch xorg.conf to the nv driver, then restart kdm everything is fine, until I restart kdm again. (At this second restart both forms of corruption occur). I can then get a usable X by switching back to the nvidia driver. (But this doesn't fix vt1-6). (For the record, I tried purging the nvidia-drivers, this didn't seem to change anything). HTH Thanks for your work in Debian Andrew V. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
