Bug#684952: nvidia-glx: startx blackens screen, keyboard ineffective save for altSysReq

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: severity -1 important
Control: found -1 304.37-1

On 2012-08-15 21:22, David L. Craig wrote:
> On 12Aug15:1037+0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
>> Please try the non-rt kernel.
> That is working, albeit differently than under Linux Mint XFCE 13.

which used: nvidia driver 295.40, Xserver 1.11, kernel 3.2-rt
now we are talking about nvidia 304.37, Xserver 1.12, kernel 3.2(-rt), a
huge difference

>> Please try a minimal xorg.conf as described in
>> /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.Debian.gz and test using a single
>> display without twinview first. If that works, slowly add more options
>> (if you need them).
> 
> That option was necessary to get nvidia to work under Mint.  It
> causes a problem under Sid with 3.2.0-3-rt-amd64 and 3.2.0-3-amd64.
> 3.2.0-3-amd64 works with 1024x768 but not with 1152x864.  However,

May things have changed in 302.xx and 304.xx due to improved xrandr
support. Read the Nvidia documentation. If this doesn't help, use the
Nvidia forum.

> I had to comment-out my console-setup VGA 8x8 defaults because nvidia
> doesn't show all 50 lines as nouveau does.  Where is that dark magic
> documented?
> 
>>> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV43
>> [GeForce 6600] [10de:0141] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
>>
>> That's an old card that should also work with nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx
> 
> Do you want me to explore the behavior of nvidia-glx-legacy-173xx?

only if you are eager to do this, but it seems there is a configuration
where the current driver works for you

>> If nothing of the above helps, Nvidia's bug reporting instructions are
>> here: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=46678
>> Please post a link to a thread in their forum to this Debian bug.
> 
> I'm a tad confused.  Is 3.2.0-3-rt-amd64 unsupported by nVidia or
> Debian?  That is, should I report the rt bug there or not?

I think anything non-vanilla is not supported by Nvidia. Perhaps you
find some information in the Nvidia forum.

squeeze-backports has the 295.59 driver and Xserver 1.11 or 1.10, in
case you want to try them.

Andreas