Hi, The builtin RHEL4 "nv" driver doesn't work properly with DVI output when using nVidia GeForce 6/7 graphics cards. It works for some time, but randomly the graphics gets distorted: White background in edit boxes, windows etc gets black and the text in some windows gets distorted. We have tried the following graphics with nVidia GeForce 6/7 graphics chips and they all have the problem: HP NVS 285 Asus EN6200LE Asus EN6200TC512 Club3D 7200GS We have not seen the problem on GeForce FX (GeForce 5) based cards, e.g. HP NVS 280. We have not seen the problem on GeForce 6/7 when using analog VGA output. OS version: RHEL4 U5/U6 Regards, Örjan Råberg Jeppesen
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One way to reproduce the problem is to repeatedly press CTRL-ALT-F1 followed by CTRL-ALt-F7 while having a couple of windows open (Gnome terminal, Firefox, gedit etc). After a couple of times (10-30) after cycling trough text console and graphics console the problem with black background and distorted text usually appears. /Örjan
Correction: The text "White background in edit boxes" should be "White background in edit boxes gets black". The problems can been seen in the attached screen shots. Screenshot 1 shows the desktop with windows that should have white background, but instead the background is black. Screenshot 2 shows how the terminal window that should have had a white background with black text instead gets a black background and at the same time the text gets black and distorted in some way and very hard to read. The popup menu is fine except for the highlighted item. It might not be clear in the screenshot, but the text of the selected item in the popup menu is distorted a little bit: The text is supposed to be white but parts of it is black. /Örjan
Try setting 'Option "HWCursor" "false"' in Device-section.
(In reply to comment #7) > Try setting 'Option "HWCursor" "false"' in Device-section. > I have just tried this and it didn't help.
Is this still an issue for you with a newer version of xserver? If so, does the problem also occur within the vesa driver? Closed nvidia driver? Nouveau?
xf86-video-nv has been officially unmaintained for a bit now, and we are closing all -nv bugs. If your problem was not addressed, and -nv is still broken, please try xf86-video-nouveau. Thank you.
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