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tidalwav1

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 12

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Framebuffer Issues

I've looked around on these forums and on IRC for a while and I still haven't been able to solve this problem.

I'm running the latest default Arch kernel (2.6.21) on a Sony VAIO VGN-FS690P laptop, with an NVIDIA Geforce Go 6200 graphics card.

Ever since I've enabled the official NVIDIA driver (installed with Pacman, not some random driver,) I have no virtual/framebuffer consoles once X starts. If I try to switch to them, I get a black screen. When my computer is in the process of shutting down, I don't see any shutdown messages, just a black screen.

Beryl is also affected by this; I have no window decorations (no titlebars, etc,) when running it, and when I run Beryl from the terminal, there is a continuously repeating error message about the framebuffer, so I'm thinking it's the cause.

I've tried adding 'vga=773' to the appropriate kernel line in my /boot/grub/menu.lst but this had no effect.

Anyone know why I have no framebuffer consoles, or why the framebuffer just plain isn't working?

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mehldutt

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-01-08

Posts: 128

Re: Framebuffer Issues

Try a different nvidia-driver :

nvidia-96xx

instead of

nvidia

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=32685

tidalwav1

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From: USA

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 12

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Re: Framebuffer Issues

Actually, everything works perfectly after installing the other (96xx) driver. I didn't realize the Geforce Go 6200 was an 'older card' (as per the wiki: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/How … IA_driver)

Thanks so much!

Last edited by tidalwav1 (2007-06-01 21:26:30)

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