On 28/11/11 13:17, Geoff wrote:

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:45:41 +0100 Karol Babioch wrote:

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So I've installed the nvidia package according to the wiki. But now I've got the problem that as soon as I start the X server, I've got a blank screen whenever switching back to the consoles (tty1-tty6). This consoles stay blank even when killing the X server, which basically means that I can't use any consoles anymore.

I have a Gforce 8400 GS and I have used the nvidia driver for several years without problems. The recent upgrade to 290.10.1 has given me the same problem that you have - plus several others. I have intermittent freezes, WAIT errors in my Xorg log, and nvidia Xid errors in my error logs. See also this thread in the forums : https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130803

I am afraid that I have no solution to offer except maybe to try downgrading as recommended in that thread. I have not done that yet myself, because I hate to downgrade, but I may soon have to try it.

What really helps is asking upstream http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 -- Jelle van der Waa

Karol Babioch [2011.11.28 1612 +0100]:

Hi,

Am 28.11.2011 13:17, schrieb Geoff:

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The recent upgrade to 290.10.1 has given me the same problem that you have - plus several others.

Thanks, as my hardware seems to be problematic anyway (Sony Vaio VPCS12C5E), so I wasn't entirely sure whether its the driver itself or my (broken) hardware.

Am 28.11.2011 15:12, schrieb Jelle van der Waa:

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What really helps is asking upstream http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

Yeah, that's probably the only right thing to do, when we can be sure that it is the driver itself that doesn't work as it is supposed to.

Since it looks like you're looking for data points then: No problems here on GeForce GTX 460 and Quadro NVS 450. The machine with the Quadro had a 7600GS and later a 9500GT in it and also never had any trouble for several years. These are desktop machines, though. N.

On 11/29/2011 09:59 AM, Vincent Schumaker wrote:

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Karol Babioch wrote:

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So I've installed the nvidia package according to the wiki. But now I've got the problem that as soon as I start the X server, I've got a blank screen whenever switching back to the consoles (tty1-tty6). This consoles stay blank even when killing the X server, which basically means that I can't use any consoles anymore.

Have you tried disabling the framebuffer?

good point. for me, using uvesafb helped getting rid of this problem (and at the same time some problems when switching from HDMI-output to the regular display). Laptop is a Sony Vaio VGN-Z21 with Nvidia 9300M

On 11/29/2011 11:42 AM, Jari Vetoniemi wrote:

Is the uvesafb slow for you? I tried to use it to enable high resolution TTY for my nVIDIA card, but it was so slow that it was unusable. And even the TTY was offset so that part of the text was hidden. With nouveau fast switch TTY's with high resolution work out of the box nicely.

actually I remember having some problems with an offset TTY so that I coudln't see the lower part of the screen. But since I configured the system almost a year ago, I don't really remember what I did to fix it (I believe that using uvesafb fixed everything)... looking at my configuration, it looks like I did everything exactly as described in the wiki. Nowadays I don't have any problems with the TTY being slow or having hidden text