Black Screen in text-mode consoles (Dell Inspiron 2650)

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Sandro Alves de Souza um 20:52:
> On Vol 1 #1012, message #12, Alexander wrote:
> 
> | > Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Sandro Alves de Souza um 15:17:
> | > > Hi everybody.
> 
> | > > Guys, when I change to a text-mode consoles (<Ctrl>+<Alt>+<F1..F6>) on 
> | > > Red Hat 9
> | > > running in a Dell Inspiron 2650 machine I get a black screen without any 
> | > > cursor shape.
> | > 
> | > Running Redhat 9 you should better place that question on the Shrike
> | > list.
> 
> Yes, I'm sorry, you're right.
> 
> | > Anyway it would be helpful to know which graphics card your notebook has
> | > and which XFree drivers you are using.
> 
> Ok, the video card reported is nVidia Geforce 2 Go (NV11 [Geforce 2 Gp]).
> The monitor is a Dell 1024x768 Laptop Display Panel
> The X-Server is 4.3.0-2.

So you use the XFree NVidia driver - nv in XF86Config - and not the
NVidia.com driver - nvidia in XF86Config?

> | > > I know these consoles are working, because I can "login" and see some 
> | > > disk activities
> | > > when I type some commands like "ls -la".
> 
> | > > But I can't see anything else a black screen without a cursor shape.
> | > > I feel like these consoles stay in graphic mode because the screen looks 
> | > > like a graphic mode screen.
> 
> | > Sounds like a known problem with using NVidia drivers and framebuffer.
> 
> I didn't know about this problem. May you tell about it?

It is a problem if using the NVidia.com driver and rivafb. If you google
for this you will find some hits. I know this myself only from reports
and not by own experience.

> | > > Sorry by my bad english, I'm a brazilian nerd.
> 
> | > > Thanks in advance.
> 
> | > Alexander
> 
> Thank you very much.

You are welcome.

Alexander


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