Re: Nvidia TV-Out Problems

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 09/19/04 

Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2004 09:04:16 +0200

Paul Mc wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
> Apologies for replying to my own post, but I noticed a mistake in my
> xorg.conf file "PAL I" should have read "PAL-I". I changed this and still
> have the same problem. Another issue I'm having is Switching VT's doesn't
> work. If I open a terminal on VT6, log in as root and type startx -- :1 I
> get my window manager loading as expected on VT8 but I cannot switch to
> VT7 and back to VT8 again without getting a blank screen on VT8 - VT7
> works fine, when I switch back to the promt where I started the second X
> session I get this: "XLIB: Extension "SHAPE" missing on display "1.0"."
> and I have to do CTRL-C to get back to the bash promt.

There is still a bug in the nVidia driver which redirects the console output
to the TV-out.

  //Aho

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