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.
| > -- | > Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG key 1024D/ED695653 1999-07-13
| > Fedora GNU/Linux Core 1 (Yarrow) on Athlon CPU kernel 2.4.22-1.2149.nptl
| > Sirendipity 15:59:18 up 2 days, 18:41, load average: 1.09, 1.22, 1.22 | > [ ????? ?'????? - gnothi seauton ]
