From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 13:34:04 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 1669016A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:34:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.net-bizz.com (mail.net-bizz.com [216.126.227.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7966A43D1D for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:34:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adamolsen@net-bizz.com) Received: from net-bizz.com [66.87.26.31] by mail.net-bizz.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-8.05) id A3AD2510136; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:18:37 -0700 Message-ID: <40070785.4040602@net-bizz.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:35:01 -0700 From: Adam Olsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20031221 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniela References: <4006C885.2090804@net-bizz.com> <200401152049.43946.dgw@liwest.at> <4006F159.5040105@net-bizz.com> <200401152204.20658.dgw@liwest.at> In-Reply-To: <200401152204.20658.dgw@liwest.at> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 21:34:04 -0000 Daniela, When I press ctrl+alt+F1, I am on the virtual console, but I cannot see it because I'm getting the mode out of range error. X does not terminate - and if I press ctrl+alt+F9, I can get back to X just fine - no more out of range error on the monitor. I can be on the virtual console until I startx, and which point if I switch back to a virtual console or exit X I get the mode out of range error. So basically, after I startx, something happens to the virtual console that makes it so that if I go back to it I get the mode out of range error. Thanks, Adam Olsen Daniela wrote: > 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 > >