[Tfug] Crazzy Screen Blanking

[Jacob Greig]

getting any nVidia chipset working successfully under a linux disrto that
nvidia doesnt support is a chore. i run MDK, which is supposedly
supported, and it still sucked.

anyway, I found a howto for debian here:
http://games.luv.asn.au/lsd/nvidia-mini-howto.html

but the basic idea is that you MUST have an appropritly patched kernel in
order for your nvidia hardware to work. if you do not have it, you will
get problems like you describe here. i would assume doubly so for a mobo
made by nvidia.

i dont use debian, but there seems to be some nvidia kernel source
packages here:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=names&keywords=nvidia-kernel-src

and they say they support the nforce.

also, for my GeForce2, vga=ask used to crash my system during boot (back
when I was using lilo) dont know if that was ever fixed or is still a
prohblem, but i would avoid it.


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Jacob Greig
bombastic@tux4kids.net
http://tux4kids.net/~bombastic/

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Joshua Bernstein wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> 	I'm stumped. I've got a nForce motherboard with Debian testing
> installed. Lilo loads the kernel and displays all the little ..... as
> it begins to uncompress. But when is gets to the last . and it attempts
> to initailize the screen, it flickers and goes blank. The weird thing
> is, is that it happens part of the time with the four 2.4 kernels I've
> tested it with. It doesn't seem to have with problem with the 2.2.20
> kernel at all. I've tried both 2.4.19, 2.4.20 with both gcc-2.95 and
> gcc-3.2 AND both Debian kernel-image packes. I've even added vga=ask to
> lilo.conf. I'm totally confussed and there doesn't seem to be any
> reason why it would only work part of the time. I've restored the BIOS
> on the motherboard to the defaults and right now I'm just plain pissed
> off.... Does anybody have any ideas or has seen this before? If you
> don't have a solution, a possible explanation would at least make me
> feel better....