new nvidia drivers bring black screen

brandonloserkid · 01-20-2004, 08:10 AM

i followed the intructions and it installed without error, i edited XF86Config by changing the lines:

Driver "nv" to Driver "nvidia"

i made sure Load "glx" was in "Modsection"

and i made sure there wasnt any that said Load "dri" or Load "GLcore"

i referred to the Nvidia manual, but nothing helped, have you guys had any trouble with this? im running slack 9.1 with a geforce 3

Bruce Hill · 01-20-2004, 08:19 AM

If you search the forums, yes, you will see there have been many people who have problems with the new Nvidia driver (version 5328 or some such). I had to go back to the 4496 pkg2.run version. It works fine. With all the problems I've read at LQ, I wonder why Nvidia hasn't addressed this.

I got the same problems. I did everything right, and all I got for the install was a "black screen of death."

boudie · 01-20-2004, 12:45 PM

Nvidia drivers (4496) worked for me with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel.
Although nvidia doesn't mention it, I could never get the drivers to
work when using a console frame buffer. Lose frame buffer and it
always seems to work. Anyone have the nvidia drivers work with the
frame buffer?

matthurne · 01-20-2004, 01:00 PM

Hey, I was having the same problem, blank screen, regardless of which driver version I was using. I added the following lines to my XFree86Config-4 and now it works, maybe this will help you...

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce3 (generic)"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NvAGP" "3"
Option "ConnectedMonitor" "CRT"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "true"
Option "TwinView" "false"
Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP, TV"
EndSection

Bruce Hill · 01-20-2004, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by boudie
Nvidia drivers (4496) worked for me with both 2.4 and 2.6 kernel.
Although nvidia doesn't mention it, I could never get the drivers to
work when using a console frame buffer. Lose frame buffer and it
always seems to work. Anyone have the nvidia drivers work with the
frame buffer?

Not exactly sure I follow you, but let's try. This is in my /etc/lilo.conf, so I assume I'm using a framebuffer

Code:

VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
vga = 773

and the Nividia driver works okay, but it's the 4496 pkg2 version, not the 5328 or whatever is the current one.