Cannot switch back to virtual terminal w/ nvidia drivers

Daniela dgw at liwest.at
Thu Jan 15 11:25:32 PST 2004


On Thursday 15 January 2004 17:06, Adam Olsen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm using FreeBSD 5.2-RELEASE and have installed the latest nvidia
> drivers available.  Everything works ok _except_ once I load X I cannot
> switch back to the virtual console.  I get a "mode out of range" error.
>   I had this problem with FreeBSD 4.8 as well.

This isn't necessarily nvidia-specific, I have this too with ATI.
Where and when exactly do you see the "mode out of range" error?

My best guess would be that this is an XFree86 bug.

Daniela




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