Black screen
 

i have a problem with what i thinks is my framebuffer,

i have a nvida geforce 4 card and i am using then gentoo distro

the problem is that when i start X i cannot access my VTs anymore nor reboot or halt my system. the screen just goes blank

i really do not know what causes this problem, just post anything you may think is the reason, the reason why i think it may be the framebuffer is that when i try it i get the same black screen, and i can't come up whith another option...

i wont care to post my XFree-log becouse it gives no errors or other useful information (i think)

Do you see anything at all when it boots?

Have you tried to reconfigure X?

yes, X boot alright, but when X is up i cannot switch back to vt nor reboot or halt, the system just goes blank and hangs....

i don't think it has anyting to do with the X configuration, because it worked fine for a while and just suddenly started to crash,

i have use the newest drivers from nvidia.com but they are pretty old (since the summer or something), maybe this is the problem

Try removing the nvidia drivers

you could try taking support for the vesa fb console out of your kernel.

have tried it all... :(

but i think it has something to do with the framebuffer, read something about that X had to swith the mode back properly or the vts would get stuck... dunno how to do this....