nVidia and the Black Screen Problem... Continued

2005-12-23 Thread moonunit
Hello As it seems now one knows about the problem I'm having with my old nvidia TNT card (see mail below) I thought I'd keep you posted with updates of my attempts to correct this poblem so far. I'm compiling new kernel and installing 0.8174 modules to see if they solve the problem. Meanwhil

Re: bug 336022 closed but not fixed(broken binutils)

2005-12-21 Thread moonunit
I had this problem when compiling kernel 2.4.27. The fault, as you have found, was with binutilts. I applied a patch from kernel.org for 2.4 kernels. Just gone there and noticed there is, or so I assume, a patch for 2.6 kernels. Anyway, here they are... http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/devel/bi

nVidia and the Black Screen Problem

2005-12-21 Thread moonunit
Hello I have just recompiled my kernel, now running 2.4.27. I compiled the nvidia kernel from source 0.7174 (I have a TNT card) and the module installation went smoothly, nvidia-glx for 0.7174 was also installed. However, I now have a black screen whenever I try to run X with the nvidia dri