something else came to mind,  have you tried putting in the int10 module
for X? That will try to softboot the video card instead of let the X
drivers do it.


On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 06:53, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> #include <hallo.h>
> Gyula Lukacs wrote on Thu Mar 21, 2002 um 01:13:39PM:
> 
> > works fine and I see only garbage on the screen, can't swith to console
> > back anymore. It happens in 10% on my nVidia Riva TNT 16MB card (Diamond
> > Viper 550), with Intel 440BX chipset, 2.4.18, with & without the most
> > recent nVidia drivers, xserver-xfree86 4.1.0-14 (and with every X
> > 4.x.x).
> 
> I have a similar problem with my (cheap) Geforce-2MX card. From time to
> time, in most cases if a second X server is running, or another
> application using Overlay runs in backround, and I go to full-screen in
> Mplayer, then after changing back to windows mode, everything is really
> broken. I can still see the window of Mplayer somewhere on the screen,
> but everything around it is screewed up, I see random shadows in the
> color of my other windows. Everything works, I can close all
> applications blindly, and shutdown the X-Server. I get my usuall text
> console. BUT: When I run the X-Server again, I get the same screewed
> picture of "shadows", only the mouse pointer looks okay. And if I
> shutdown the X-Server this time, I get only a black picture unless I
> restart the machine.
> 
> Gruss/Regards,
> Eduard.
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