strange X? problem

ascompltd · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:02 am Post subject: strange X? problem

I have recently changed a number of things on my PC, I went from a Voodoo3 graphics card to a Nvidia Gforce4MX 64MB graphics card emerged the Nvidia stuff and X works fine managed to get 1152*864 resolution although screen claimed to be able to give 1280 * 1024 but I was quite happy with the setting I could get, But when I shut the box down the screen couldn't swith to the default settings so screen width was too wide.

Anyway For different reasons I have now changed my screen from the 17" CRT to a 15" TFT max resolution is now 1024*768 (Hardware forced) but I still get the shutdown problem only now screen goes blank as it cant switch rather than wrapping itself.

I am n ot sure if this is a hardware problem or if I can change the default console font size to resolve the issue.

Any help would be appreciated

cchapman · Guru Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 440 Location: Fremont, NE

Have you tried

ascompltd · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 4:04 am Post subject: not actually an X problem

Yes I have done that but its not X that is my problem it is switching back from X to console (ie when I shutdown I don't get to see any of the shutdown kernel messages)

curtis119 · Posted: Fri May 23, 2003 7:39 pm Post subject:

I have the same problem. After much, much googling around I discovered that this is a glitch in the nvidia card itself, specifically the gForce4mx.Even though you can't see anything you can blindly type: 'rmmod nvidia' the console screen SHOULD reset. It works for me.
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