I recently performed a reinstall of my system and after getting everything else to work I start looking for a driver for my GeForce Ti 4200 card. I had been using the open source one before but unfortunately that one didn't have TV OUT support. Something I really can't be with out. So I go to nVidia's site and download a driver from them. I read the readme file to check for 2.6 kernel support. It seemed like they supported 2.6 from what I read but after installing I'm not so sure. The driver itself is working OK but I don't play any games so I'm not too sure about performance or such. All I know is that when I switch from X to a console or shut down X my computer freezes. Even when I type "reboot" or "halt" as root in an aterm while running X the screen just goes blank and my computer's frozen. Now as you can probably tell, this is extremely annoying and uhm... unhealthy for my system. Looking around for actually not so long I didn't find any trace of anyone with the same problem. Am I the only one? Is there something I'm forgetting? Or something I'm doing wrong? Does anyone have any idea of what IS actually wrong? Or perhaps better yet how to fix it?

Thanks.

ONE of the logs in /var/log should tell you something about what is
happening during shut down!!

I have the latest nvidia driver for 2.6.6 and it works great. Did you follow the instructions they gave on how to modify your xf86config or xorg.conf file?

Thanks for the replies.

I did look through some logs. I couldn't find any that told me what was happening during the shut down of the X server. I did how ever look through the XFree86.0.log file. It didn't indicate any weird stuff... I also looked through the installation log. I didn't find anything suspicious there either. Is there perhaps an option in the kernel configuration that I have not set correctly?

I also did edit my XF86Config-4 file according to the readme. I went through it again, just to be sure. No success.

Any input will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

Anyone? This is REALLY annoying and as far as my friend www.google/linux tells me, no one is having the same problem.

Am I ALL ALONE over here? Has no one else experienced this problem?

perhaps it could be the video card it self? or some hardware problem, have u tried the a different video card. You could try another nvidia card 2 c if it works, but do check var/log 2 c if any log tells u anything during start up and shutdown or in between

I'm not entirely sure on this one, but I think that once you exit X, it's not the nvidia driver that's driving your card. And it's supposedly not a good idea to be running X and switching over to a console (by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-F<1..5?>), if that's what you're doing as well -- having two drivers control the same device is generally not a good idea, I hear.
Did you try searching or posting to the following NVIDIA-centric forum?
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/foru...?s=&forumid=14

i've never heard anything like that, that swithcing (crtl, alt , f1..) is bad?
does anybody know about that?

I didn't know switching was bad either... I'm not taking it too seriously either. :P

Anyways, thanks for pointing me to that forum. I posted there yesterday. I've been extremely busy the last few weeks. I'm sorry I didn't reply sooner.

As it turns out, for anyone else experiencing the same problem, TV-out was screwing with me. Appearantly there's some problem with nVidia's TV-out so it hangs the computer if you leave it enabled in the XF86Config-4 file when you exit X, switch to a console or reboot/halt your machine. Another solutions that seems to work is to unplug your TV-out cable while rebooting etc. That should allow you to use TV-out, altough it's rather annoying. :P

Thanks for the help.