[H-GEN] oddities in console

Nikolai Lusan nikolai at humbug.org.au
Tue Jun 25 20:12:59 EDT 2002


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On 25 Jun 2002, Robert Stanford wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 15:35, Nikolai Lusan wrote:
>
> I'm getting the same problem, i'm running 2.4.18.

I can verify that it is card independant. The machine it mainly effects
me on has an S3 Virge card in it, but it has happened to other machines
I have - and all of them hae different video cards.


> it crashes more often when using the built in agp driver in the nvidia
> kernel module.

I don't own an AGP video card (niether does work) so it's not that :)


> Whats your system do?  If I do ctrl-alt-f1 the screen sometimes just
> goes blank and I have to reboot. Not every time but enough for me to
> avoid doing it.

Normally it happens at night while I am not infront of the machine, I
turn the monitor back on in the morning to find it has a blank display
and is switching vt's but not displaying anything (judicious use of num
lock is a good test).  Generally the solution is a reboot, but I do it
from another machine so i can do it safely. It is a little annoying
though.



Nikolai


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