Bug 8367 – NVIDIA drivers hose X sesssion

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description ptrost 2002-09-25 09:32:34 UTC]

With either the drivers installed from the ebuild or the tarball from their
website what happens is once I log in to KDE, I do CTRL-ALT-F1 and instead of
getting a flashing cursor I see a block. When I do CTRL-ALT-F7 to get back into
X the computer freezes at the console and I have to reboot the machine. If I use
the stock nv driver then everything works perfectly. 

I'm running a Athlon 1.7 system with XFree 4.2.0-r12 and a TNT2 M64 card.
I have verified that the same system running Red Hat 7.3 and the Nvidia drivers
works fine with XFree 4.2.0

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2002-09-25 09:46:33 UTC]

heh, once i start up a X session using the NVdrive kern module, i take vt 
switching very seriously ... i.e. i press the buttons very softly and slowly in 
the hopes i dont make the computer angry

do you have framebuffering setup on the consoles ?
what are your XF86Config options ?

[Comment 2 ptrost 2002-09-27 06:47:45 UTC]

Did some additional testing and the combination of the Nvidia framebuffer code   and the Nvidia drivers are the problem. I haven't had a chance to play with   the XF86Config options yet. 

[Comment 3 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) 2002-09-29 05:55:33 UTC]

Lockups due to using rivafb combined with the Nvidia drivers is a known
issue.  Either use the "nv" driver if you really want to use rivafb, or else
use vesafb, which have worked just fine with the Nvidia drivers on a few
different setups for me.

This will have to be fixed by the kernel guys, and Nvidia, so I do not know
what this have to do with us.  This is not specific to Gentoo AFIAK, so closing.