Black Screen in text-mode consoles (Dell Inspiron 2650)

[Sandro Alves de Souza]

On Vol 1 #1012, message #12, Alexander wrote:

| > Am Mi, den 11.02.2004 schrieb Sandro Alves de Souza um 15:17:
| > > Hi everybody.

| > > Guys, when I change to a text-mode consoles (<Ctrl>+<Alt>+<F1..F6>) on 
| > > Red Hat 9
| > > running in a Dell Inspiron 2650 machine I get a black screen without any 
| > > cursor shape.
| > 
| > Running Redhat 9 you should better place that question on the Shrike
| > list.

Yes, I'm sorry, you're right.

| > Anyway it would be helpful to know which graphics card your notebook has
| > and which XFree drivers you are using.

Ok, the video card reported is nVidia Geforce 2 Go (NV11 [Geforce 2 Gp]).
The monitor is a Dell 1024x768 Laptop Display Panel
The X-Server is 4.3.0-2.

| > > I know these consoles are working, because I can "login" and see some 
| > > disk activities
| > > when I type some commands like "ls -la".

| > > But I can't see anything else a black screen without a cursor shape.
| > > I feel like these consoles stay in graphic mode because the screen looks 
| > > like a graphic mode screen.

| > Sounds like a known problem with using NVidia drivers and framebuffer.

I didn't know about this problem. May you tell about it?

| > > Sorry by my bad english, I'm a brazilian nerd.

| > > Thanks in advance.

| > Alexander

Thank you very much.

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