[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#483932: Bug#483932: Console is sometimes in a mess after X server has started

newbeewan newbeewan at nativobject.com
Sun Jun 1 15:25:39 UTC 2008


Le 01.06.2008 17:17, Lennart Sorensen a écrit :
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:29:17PM +0200, newbeewan wrote:
>   
>> Package: nvidia-kernel-source
>> Version: 169.12-4
>>
>> Severity: important
>> Priority: normal
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm using nvidia driver on a 2.6.25-2 kernel (linux-image-2.6.25-2-686 2.6.25-4) and 
>> usplash (0.5.19-2).
>>
>> Somtimes (I seem to be completely unpredictable, about 1/3 of startups), my laptop start 
>> well, but if I try to switch to console (with Crlt + Alt + fX), characters are unreadable 
>> on the left of the screen... And when I shutdown it, the screen is full of piece of white 
>> crap, such as all characters was mixed up and in bad resolution !
>>
>> It is not a big issue for now, but if I want to restart kdm, I must do it blindly...
>>
>> There are no others problems, Xorg work well, only console issue.
>>
>> Hardware details : Sony Vaio SZ3, nvidia GeForce Go 7400 with 256Mb of turbo-cache, Intel 
>> Core duo 2, Ram 2Gb, ICH7 family plateform (Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS/940GML and 945GT).
>>     
>
> That sounds vaguely like one of the issues nvidia claims to have fixed
> in 173, so perhaps the next release of the driver will fix that for you.
>
>   
Ok, I'll wait for the next release.
It is not really blocking for me as I'm using only X session on that 
machine.

Regards

Mourad





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