[pkg-nvidia-devel] Bug#592111: nvidia-glx: virtual consoles shifted down and to the right when switching from X

[Andreas Beckmann]

tags 592111 + moreinfo
thanks

On Saturday, 7. August 2010 17:37:45 Jonas Pfenninger wrote:
> Package: nvidia-glx
> Version: 195.36.24-4
>
> When switching from X to a tty the whole screen of the console is shifted
> down so I can only see the one line of text (the one that should be at the

Is this still reproducible with 195.36.31-2 which entered unstable yesterday?

> top of the screen, it is now at the bottom). The text that is shifted out
> of sight to the right appears (as usual) at the left of the screen. I had
> this problem also with a different laptop with a Nvidia Geforce 9500M GS. I
> have tried the window managers openbox and awesome. The console works fine,
> I just can't see what I'm typing.

What about gdm/kdm and gnome/kde?

Do you use kernel parameters in the bootloader to set a specific video mode?

What kernel modules are loaded when this behavior occurs?

Try removing all packages related to the free nouveau driver.


Andreas