Package: nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx Version: 1.0.9639-1 Severity: important users with nvidia geforce 420 and 440 go cards (and perhaps others) will get a black screen once they install the 96xx driver. this does not happen with the 71xx driver.
the problem appears to be that the driver thinks that it is supposed to be outputing to a crt even though the 4xx go are laptop cards. the solution is to add Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" to xorg.conf to force the driver to output to the flat panel (as described here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=417188). it appears that redhat made some kind of patch to specifically fix a problem very similar to this (http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/freshrpms/fedora/7/nvidia-x11-drv-96xx/nvidia-x11-drv-96xx-1.0.9639-1.i386.html, the Tue Oct 31 2006 note). not sure where to actually get the patch. thanks for the hard work. mike -- Package-specific info: uname -r: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux /proc/version: Linux version 2.6.18-4-686 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Wed May 9 23:03:12 UTC 2007 /proc/driver/nvidia/version: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 440 Go] (rev a3) -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (400, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx depends on: ii libc6 2.5-9+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar ii nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-2.6 1.0.9639+1 NVIDIA binary kernel module for Li ii x11-common 1:7.2-5 X Window System (X.Org) infrastruc nvidia-glx-legacy-96xx recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
