riva tnt2 display card and NVidia drivers

sawanv · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 238

Hello All.

I have an old Riva Tnt 2 card with 32 MB of display memory.
I have currently installed the NVdia 43 drivers

My problem is the NVdia drivers, which seem to corrupt the display buffer (I think its not flushed when I logout of X). So suppose I am watching a movie, finish it and log out of X. Instead of a nice VT, my whole screen turns into dark green slime, with some random image from the movie barely visible behind the green.

Even if I do get the normal VT, the cursor gets the green treatment and turns into a small green rectangle.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Bean
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keifir · Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 8:52 pm Post subject:

i'm sorry, i don't know the answer to your problem but i couldn't resist posting this:

the Matrix got you!

:wink:

keifir

PowerFactor · Posted: Mon May 12, 2003 9:36 pm Post subject:

Try the 3123 drivers. I have an old rivaTNT and it works fine with those.

sawanv · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 238

I have tried the old 31 drivers and they are the same. I upgraded hoping the newer ones would sole the problem.

Or maybe the Matrix did get me.....In which case you automated reply bots are going to studiously ignore my problem.

Bean
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scoy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 95

I had this similar issue with my riva tnt2, i managed to narrow it down to using the nvidia driver for the framebuffer. ( gotta love bootsplashes ).

i fixed it by not using the 'nvidia riva' support under 'console drivers' -> 'Frame Buffer Support' when compiling my kernel.

like i said i still use the frame buffer, just not with the nvidia riva support. i got it to work with the VESA VGA and bootsplash;

i use the newest nvidia drivers in portage so i dont think its that.