On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 09:41:54AM -0000, Tristan Scott wrote:
Gentoo 1.4 sound works (c-media), but when i start X, i get scrambled characters on a console-font screen. system still responds, login over network works, but VC's dont (ctrl-alt-f1, scroll-lock, alt-f2) no way i get to vc's it seems. only a reboot fixes it, killing X, xinit etc doues not help.
tried NVdriver with and without, with and without glx, with nv or nvidia, and combos of the above. using a Ti4400 in AGP, no onboard graphics. nvnet works, cmpci onboard sound works, just damned graphics.
What speed AGP is it? (the gfx card) and which agp drivers are you using? If you are using an AGP 3.0 card then things may get interesting as the standard kernel doesnt' support them yet, and the nvidia driver only supports nforce2 boards (which is what you have?) the other thing I notice is that you are referring to "NVdriver" which is an older release than the current "nvidia" driver which added support for the GeForce 4. Which version of the non-free driver are you using? if it is latest why is it called NVdriver?
Anyhow enjoy playing around with your settings, it is almost certainly to do with AGP if you get a text console and it all goes a bit messy when starting X. You could try changing your device section in XF86Config-4 to
Section "Device" Identifier "NVIDIA GeForce" Driver "nvidia" Option "NvAgp" "0" EndSection
Which works for me with my ti4200 agp 8x on a KT400 board.
Adam