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[ILUG] Help with nVidia drivers install FC2

[ILUG] Help with nVidia drivers install FC2

Paul Mc Auley paul at peema.org
Mon Aug 23 23:45:18 IST 2004


On Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:49:48 +0100 
David Connolly <david.connolly at gmail.com>  wrote:
| 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. 

On a related note, I've been trying to get the ACPI suspend to RAM trick 
to work, and it suspends fine, and even comes back, but the nvidia driver 
goes into a huff.

And yes, I've tried setting NvAGP to 1.

Kernel 2.6.8.1, nvidia-6106, VIA KT600...

Any thoughts?
	Paul




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