On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, civileme wrote: > Well, it sounds like you are using the latest commercial NVidia drivers.
Yes -- acceleration works perfectly and gears is a blur. :) > > Framebuffer is not well supported by NVidia or their drivers. All I see > on booting framebuffer with an NForce chipset is the blue bar along the > bottom, though framebuffer worked outstandingly for the install. With > XFree drivers I get good framebuffer results except when switching out > to console where the vga= has been lost. > > This isn't apparently a fixable problem without some better tech info > from NVidia. I was afraid of that. The annoying thing is that I can't seem to even disable fb completely. If I specify vga=none in lilo.conf, the machine will still boot with a fb logo in the top left. The first time I'd thought that maybe I'd forgotten to rerun lilo, but this was not the case. I then tried rebuilding a kernel with fb completely disabled. No logo, but X refuses to start with "No screens found" errors. The reason this is so annoying is that I spend 90% of my time on the console and because this works on all the other machines, I often find myself pressing CTL-ALT-Fx to get a quick shell. I even considered building only a serial console so that there were no consoles...
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