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failure

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From: Chile

Registered: 2005-04-29

Posts: 40

Nvidia issue, black screens at tty's "ctr alt Fx"

well, yesterday i installed arch from the 2008.03 iso, everything its ok, but when i do "startx" and i try to go to any TTY i only get a black screen, i've reading the forums for a solution, i tried the "vga" parameter in the menu.lst but its fail, im using "nvidia" driver in the xorg.conf..

i have a compaq F706LA with nvidia  geforce go 6100 vga and the drivers from the repo:

pacman -Qi nvidia
Name           : nvidia
Version        : 169.12-2

any ideas please thanks.

pd: sorry my bad english

Denacke

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Registered: 2008-04-09

Posts: 106

Re: Nvidia issue, black screens at tty's "ctr alt Fx"

Odd, It seems I have the same problem too, I'm using intel drivers so I doubt the problem is driver related.

violagirl23

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Registered: 2008-01-24

Posts: 184

Re: Nvidia issue, black screens at tty's "ctr alt Fx"

My X wouldn't originally start when I had a framebuffer issue; it couldn't handle it being at 32 by default, so I had to change it. So there might be an issue (probably not that) in your xorg.conf file other than the driver.

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failure

Member

From: Chile

Registered: 2005-04-29

Posts: 40

Re: Nvidia issue, black screens at tty's "ctr alt Fx"

Section "Module"
        Load "freetype"
        # Load "xtt"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "glx"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "record"
        Load  "xtrap"
#       Load  "type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "Auto"
        Option      "Emulate3Buttons"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
 ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
#       HorizSync    31.5 - 48.5
#       VertRefresh  50.0 - 70.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Card        "** NVIDIA (generic)                   [nv]"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     16
        SubSection "Display"
                Viewport   0 0
                Depth     24
                Modes "nvidia-auto-select"
#Modes    "1280x800"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

i really dont think the problem is xorg, i see this problem in 2 archers friends  too, both with nvidia vga's, and there are a few more threads about similar problems. Maybe framebuffer?

m...

any help is welcome..

thanks

Last edited by failure (2008-04-15 15:16:07)

TecnoVM64

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From: Santiago, Chile

Registered: 2007-06-02

Posts: 45

Re: Nvidia issue, black screens at tty's "ctr alt Fx"

Hey failure, as of now, the only way to fix this is downgrading to 100.14.19
It's been a known issue for a long time now and however nvidia hasn't yet released any kind of fix for it.