Display Problem exiting X with Nvidia drivers installed
 

Hello Everyone,
I am running slackware 9.0 with fluxbox (0.1.14), and right after I installed the drivers for my Geforce 4 MX 440 everything works great, except when I exit my X session, all I see are random, multicolored dots. The only way I get around is by blindly typing "startx" again to get back in and see what i'm doing. I have combed over the nvidia website, and the readme, but noone seems to have this problem. Any ideas are GREATLY appreciated.

do they go away if you type 'clear' and hit enter?

No, but good idea..

Paste your XF86Config

Its something to do with the framebuffer, this is all tech mumbo-jumbo to me. So this is the easy way to fix it:

Edit your /etc/lilo.conf to look something like this:

/snippet/

timeout = 1200
# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
# Normal VGA console
vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790

/snippet/

The important bit in the lilo.conf is that you switch from VESA framebuffer to "vga = normal".

After that, run lilo from terminal as root to update your mbr.

Reboot and you will see a slightly simpler bootsequence, but the pesky multicoloured dots are gone when switching from init 4 to init 3....

Hope this made some sense... Works for me anyway :D

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