Video success at last!

On Saturday 30 October 2004 11:07 am, bliq wrote:

> i agree that if you are using nv driver, then the screen goes black, but
> not the backlight. only with nvidia bianry driver the backlight goes off.
> if you want to use the binary nvidia driver, you should use version 5336,
> because the newest one 6221 (or so..) actually hangs when switching to the
> console. with the 5336, going back to the console after X flickers and in
> twin view isnt displayed at all( when the X is killed on shutdown) but the
> system doesnt hang. so it is quite useable if you (as i do) are using
> xterm. balique

Thanks to advice from bliq and Tomasz Sterna, I have the following:

OK, here's a winning combination that gives you good accelerated X and also
good vesa frambebuffer text, and also lets you turn off the backlight
completely with DPMS. You can switch back and forth between them safely.

* Vesafb-tng
This is a kernel patch. You can get the patch from:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~spock/projects/vesafb-tng/
I am using a 2.6.8-rc5 (I think) kernel.

* NVIDIA binary drivers v.5336 (6111 doesn't work).
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_1.0-5336.html

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