On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:24:03 +0100, Kevin Philp <kevin at cybercolloids.net> wrote:
> By the way I find on Mandrake that when I use NVidia drivers switching out of
> X into tty1 leaves me with a screen of junk. Opening a terminal window is
> fine. Does anyone knows how to fix this.
I find using framebuffer drivers (riva & vesa) leads to intermittent
corruption(Brightly coloured) on consoles with nvidia's binary driver.
Oddly 'nv' never seems to produce this.
boot with vga=0 to test try it sans fb, unless of course you
require/like high resolution consoles more than X!
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