nvidia displays a green screen?

kemical · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject: nvidia displays a green screen?

running 2.6.5mm kernel

killed X, ran emerge nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel, edited XF86Config to replace nv with nvidia, now when i X comes up a green screens shows up and i have to reboot the machine ;-(

any suggestions? im kind of thinking it could be the kernel that isn't allowing me to install the nvidia drivers correctly but i could be wrong. ive ran a search through the forums and didn't find anyone with my problem, sorry if this is a repeat.

thanks
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thagame · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:14 pm Post subject:

it might be the kernel, but i had that problem before also and all i did was change the horiz and vert of my monitor and it went away.

frogger · n00b Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 35

Apparently the NVIDIA binary drivers don't work with the 4K Stacks patch that was recently added to the mm kernel.

You should be able to disable 4K stacks (CONFIG_4KSTACKS) in your kernel config, or use a kernel without this patch (such as development-sources-2.6.5_rc3).

kemical · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:31 pm Post subject:

deathdruid · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 5:32 pm Post subject:

Change the line to:

kemical · Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 6:06 pm Post subject:

well ive made some progress, instead of a green screen i just get a little blue ascii character in the form of a smiley ;-( i guess ill just have to use another kernel
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rberry88 · Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject:

Did you remember to run "opengl-update nvidia" after installing the drivers??

If I forget to do this after re-compiling my kernel I get a screen full of strange ascii characters requiring a full reboot.

rberry88