Re: F8 Desktop Effects, nVidia, and Virtual Terminals

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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].


IF Desktop effects is Disabled (ie running metacity instead of compiz) .. there is no problem ... I think its a compiz problem

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