On Friday 30 November 2001 04:01 pm, Casper Gielen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 07:03:21PM +0000, Neil Booth wrote: > > Shaul Karl wrote:- > > > > > > Like someone else said, it seems to confuse the graphics card (or some > > part of the kernel, because I noticed when rebooting 8-) that the > > kernel manages to cure it before shutdown is fully complete). > > Many timesa. I hardly leave X anymore because of it (yes I use xterms :) > Virtually any time X crashes the consoles will no longer be available > after restarting X. Actually they do respond normally, there's just no > usable output. I'm using the latest X from unstable + nvidia drivers. > Restarting X or kdm has no effect whatsover. Switching runlevels doesn't > work either. The only solution is a reboot :( hello, I also encountered problems with nvidia drivers; I can't even reach the console if I started X (although it's on suse 7.2); use the free drivers instead (note that you won't get 3d with then), they seem to work nicely.
dragos
