Re: Video success at last!

Ned,

> 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.

At your advice I tried this combination. I'm using the 6629 version of
the nVidia driver.

It works. The backlight finally goes off (yay!). I can switch back to
a console without hanging, and there's no flicker like there is with the
nv driver, but there's no cursor. I can type; I just can't see where
I'm typing. Do you have that problem?

Are you setting the framebuffer mode? I tried passing "video=1024x768"
to the kernel but it didn't change anything.

Adam

On Sat, 2004-10-30 at 13:32, Ned Konz wrote:
> 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
Received on Mon Nov 15 19:38:21 2004