From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 11:52:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE62D16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:52:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at (lilzmailso01.liwest.at [212.33.55.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB4B43D49 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 11:52:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from cm58-27.liwest.at ([212.33.58.27]) by lilzmailso01.liwest.at with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AhDXW-0004IS-QZ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:52:27 +0100 From: Daniela To: Adam Olsen Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 20:49:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <4006C885.2090804@net-bizz.com> <200401152022.39279.dgw@liwest.at> <4006EA1E.3000103@net-bizz.com> In-Reply-To: <4006EA1E.3000103@net-bizz.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401152049.43946.dgw@liwest.at> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:52:47 -0000 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