F8 Desktop Effects, nVidia, and Virtual Terminals

[Gilboa Davara]

On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 09:06 +1000, Brian Chadwick wrote:
> I have an nVidia 7600 graphics card, livna kmod-nvidia, on an Athlon 
> XP3200+, using F8
> 
> Desktop Effects works fine, BUT, if I use <Ctrl> <Alt> <Fn> to change to 
> a text mode virtual terminal, strange things happen. On using <Ctrl> 
> <Alt> <Fn> to change to a text terminal, all seems fine. Then using 
> <Ctrl> <Alt> <F7> to go back to the X session gives a black screen with 
> only the mouse pointer showing. No X shortcuts work. Using <Ctrl> <Alt> 
> <Fn> to get back to a text mode screen does not work. The only way out 
> is to hard reset the machine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Brian
> 

Seems like an nVidia driver / Video BIOS to me.
I'd suggest you post a message in nVidia's Linux forum [1].

- Gilboa
[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14