On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:42:35 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] said with temporary authority
> 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... My box boots without framebuffer (different video card) and the setting I use in lilo.conf is vga=normal .... rather than vga=none..... could help? James > > >
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