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tobemi
06-13-2004, 04:27 PM
Ive recently installed the newest NVIDIA drivers with a certain amount of succes.(great learning experience). But after Ive tried gaming through Wine I have a strange problem:
Whenever I leave X the screen goes "blind" i.e. I can only see white horizontal lines on my screen. All I can do is Ctrl+alt+del to reboot the computer. I suspect it could be a driver problem but I havent been able to find any solution on nvidias home page.
The problem is quite annoying and strange (to me) but maybe others have had the same problems??
My system:
Mandrake 10.0 official
AMD 2500+ athlon
512 mb ram
Geforce 3 ti200
Terratec xfire 1024
Uranus
06-13-2004, 04:32 PM
Well, I've had for sometime that while installing gentoo I couldn't close the lid of my desktop without the screen going ugly and unreadable - in the actual install this wasn't the case though.
That's all I can tell you, every time I'd installed it didn't happen and it didn't happen using the livecd anymore either.
I don't know what it is
Sam
tobemi
06-13-2004, 04:39 PM
So you mean its a distro issue?
mdwatts
06-14-2004, 11:26 AM
Nvidia's homepage? Do you mean their user forums?
tobemi
06-15-2004, 02:11 AM
Yes. I found the subject in several posts but so far I havent found a solution to the problem
mdwatts
06-15-2004, 01:05 PM
Anything in the Nvidia README on possible X config options you can try?
Months ago by searching the Nvidia forum for a screen flicker I had about once a minute, I found I needed to add
Option "HWCursor" "0"
Option "SWCursor" "1"
to the Device section. Fixed!!
Some to look at are the ServerFlags options.
Option "DisableVidModeExtension" "true/false"
Option "AllowNonLocalXvidtune" "true/false"
Option "DisableModInDev" "true/false"
Option "AllowNonLocalModInDev" "true/false"
Plus others that are mentioned in the XF86Config manpage (man XF86Config).
With the above resources and any Wine troubleshooting docs or faq's you can find, you should be able to find a solution. If not, hopefully another member that has had the same problem as you will see this and help out.
Perhaps if you post the relevant sections of your X config, it might give someone a clue to what is going on.
ServerFlags, Module & Device