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I got a new laptop, with an NVidia 9800M card, put Arch64 on it, and put the nvidia driver on it. Right now, I'm using the default nvidia-xconfig --composite configuration, and X itself is working great. However, upon switching VTs with Ctrl+Alt+F1, I get just a black screen, with not even the backlight. I can, however, blindly type commands, and switching back to X with Alt+F7 works. Googling around, it seems that it is a known problem, and that somehow the driver is setting the display to an invalid video mode upon switching VTs. I tried a few proposed solutions, including adding different video= options to the kernel, and nothing has helped. What, if any, is the solution? Thanks.
Last edited by tavianator (2008-09-04 15:53:09)
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