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Subject: Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers
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Daniela,

I see it when I switch to a virtual console only.  When I switch back to 
X, I'm ok again.  Also, if I exit X, I get it the error, but I can 
blindly startx again.

At one point in FreeBSD 4.8 I could switch to the virtual console, but 
everything was wavy - text was moving around (it was really weird).

Thanks,

Adam Olsen

Daniela wrote:
> On Thursday 15 January 2004 17:06, Adam Olsen wrote:
> 
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm using FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and have installed the latest nvidia
>>drivers available.  Everything works ok _except_ once I load X I cannot
>>switch back to the virtual console.  I get a "mode out of range" error.
>>  I had this problem with FreeBSD 4.8 as well.
> 
> 
> This isn't necessarily nvidia-specific, I have this too with ATI.
> Where and when exactly do you see the "mode out of range" error?
> 
> My best guess would be that this is an XFree86 bug.
> 
> Daniela
> 
>