From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 13:07:06 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 252BE16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:07:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from lilzmailso01.liwest.at (lilzmailso01.liwest.at [212.33.55.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A57143D3F for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:07:04 -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 1AhEhj-0005nJ-7B; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:07:03 +0100 From: Daniela To: Adam Olsen Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:04:20 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <4006C885.2090804@net-bizz.com> <200401152049.43946.dgw@liwest.at> <4006F159.5040105@net-bizz.com> In-Reply-To: <4006F159.5040105@net-bizz.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401152204.20658.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 21:07:06 -0000 On Thursday 15 January 2004 20:00, Adam Olsen wrote: > Daniela, > > Ok - Everything works perfectly in X. When I switch to the VT, I get a > mode out of range error. I can switch back to X just fine. Just the VT > has this problem. OK, when you press, say, ctrl+alt+F1 to switch to the VT, are you still in X or at the console? Is the error message at the console or on the VT from where you entered startx? Does X terminate? > I never get the wavy text while in X. If by chance I am able to switch > to the VT for some reason without getting the mode out of range error, > all the text is waving around. This has not happened in FreeBSD 5.2, > but I did see it a few times in 4.8 (I don't know if I'll be able to > reproduce it). If you switch back to X when you get the wavy text, is everything OK there? Can you start X from inside a debugger? What do you have in your XF86Config? I'll go to sleep now, good night. > Thanks, > > Adam Olsen > > Daniela wrote: > > 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