Comment 167 for bug 129910

Hello,

  I got an nVidia GeForce Go 7200 on an AMD64 X2 laptop.

  1. My tty's problem was solved using instructions in MOM2007's post.
     But I was using vesafb & fbcon modules only, ie. I didn't use
     nvidiafb module.
  2. A while ago I did tried to use nvidiafb instead of vesafb, but I
     got problems similar to what 'gwi' has mentioned. So I just
     disabled 'nvidiafb'
  3. For X, I use nvidia-glx driver and NOT the nvidia-glx-new, as the
     nvidia-glx-new caused hangups on my laptop even if I disable compiz
     stuff.
  4. With the nvidia-glx, I was not able to use compiz, because with
     compiz enabled, if I switch to a tty then back to X, I would just
     get a mouse pointer over a black screen and that's it, sometimes I
     even can't switch back to the tty, and even if I can, after few
     moments the laptop would hangup.
  5. Anyways, I gave it a try to add nvidiafb to the fbcon & vesafb
     modules, and it was fine, I was even now able to get compiz
     working ! Now, I am thinking to test nvidia-glx-new again with
     nvidiafb module loaded.

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 أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
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