Using framebuffer (nVidia Riva support) in your kernel? That's what gave me all my probs with console lockups. Soon as I took it out of the kernel, everything worked great.
Peter. On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:25, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Hi, > > I admit it, lured by the promise of a faster screensaver I installed > the closed source nVidia GL libraries and modules, and now I'm > suffering for it. > > My GL screen hacks are running 4x faster, but I can't switch virtual > terminals and am limited to a single running Xsession (I usually have > three or four open for other member of my household). > > If I CTRL-ALT-F<n> all I get is noise, *sometimes* I can get back to X > sometimes I can't. If I actually close X my console is locked, so I'm > forced to run a display manager to respawn X. > > I sould probably just reinstal the packages nVidia has stomped on and > repent of my proprietary ways, but has anyone else experienced this > and know a different fix? > > I'm running sid with: > 2.4.14-686-smp (debian official) > xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-9 > nVidia Corporation Riva TnT [NV04] (rev 04) (PCI) > Dual PPro 200Mhz 256M > > and the evil: > NVIDIA_GLX-1.0-1541 > NVIDIA_kernel-1.0-1541 > > Interesting dmesg stuff: > Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 32 to 1 > Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 64 to 2 > Warning: Remapping obsolete /dev/fb* minor 96 to 3 > > Shamefully yours, > -Jon
