Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:49:43 +0000 From: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at> To: Adam Olsen <adamolsen@net-bizz.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers Message-ID: <200401152049.43946.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <4006EA1E.3000103@net-bizz.com> References: <4006C885.2090804@net-bizz.com> <200401152022.39279.dgw@liwest.at> <4006EA1E.3000103@net-bizz.com>
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On Thursday 15 January 2004 19:29, Adam Olsen wrote: > 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. I don't quite understand what you mean. I thought you can't switch back to VT? > 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). Could you describe this a bit more? I'm often seeing text moving around, and weird colorful stripes on the screen when I switch to X. Viewing a specific page in Mozilla triggers this. Unfortunately, I can't just open the debugger and see what's going on at this time, because I can hardly see anything on the screen. When you're able to reproduce it, then have a look at the on-screen menu of your monitor and check the frequencies, they're probably way too high. > 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
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