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Since switching to the Nvidia driver, when I switch consoles using Ctrl-Alt-Fn, I get a blank screen. Any idea what is causing this. I have a MacBook 5,1.
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A quicks earch with Google finds threads in these forums, the Ubuntu forums and nvidia forums going back over a year regarding this issue. It seems to be a fairly common occurrence. I have a GeForce 9400 and get the same thing with the nvidia driver.
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Same here. Any solutions?
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Ok, workaround: add "vga=normal" to your kernel command line. Works for me. The main error has to be fixed by nvidia. There's nothing we can do.
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The main error has to be fixed by nvidia.
It won't be. They're very clear about not supporting anything but a text console.
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Thorsten Reinbold wrote:The main error has to be fixed by nvidia.
It won't be.
Really? For me, the problem was solved with the 304.88-2 version of the nvidia-304xx driver. A similar outcome was reported in the thread at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=160037.
Last edited by cjazz (2013-04-09 08:34:24)
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Really? For me, the problem was solved with the 304.88-2 version of the nvidia-304xx driver.
By pure chance. Every linux forum around has threads about that message the nvidia driver shows when you're running a framebuffer console. Nvidia isn't doing anything to support them. They're not deliberately breaking them either, so it does work for many people, but that's, as I said, by pure chance.
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