This was exactly it - though not strictly 'mis-configured. Its a mythtv box setup to run on a TV, and I had plugged a monitor in to use it. A bit red faced as I should have twigged much earlier than just an hour ago!
BillK On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 08:08 -0300, Pete Pardoe wrote: > I have two AMD 64's one at work and one at home both run nvidia > drivers and while there werre times when I had problems initially - > they were cured when I went to the latest nvidia drivers (~amd64) and > I have never had a problem with either system in over 6 months. It > could be a misconfigured xorg.conf file so try re-doing that and > recompiling nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. > > Pete > > On 6/11/06, Anthony E. Caudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William Kenworthy wrote: > > Are there any known glitches in using the nvidia drivers > with an > > athlon64? > > > They work together for me. > > Tony > > -- > Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a > little temporary > Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. > -- Benjamin Franklin > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > > > > -- > Pete Pardoe -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list