When the framebuffer devices are enabled in the kernel, the screen is constantly "snowed" in in text mode. X is similarly scrambled, and essentially useless. Recompiling the kernel without framebuffer support fixes the problem. relevant bit of lspci -v 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Nvidia Corporation Riva TNT (rev 04) Subsystem: Unknown device 1092:0550 Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 Memory at e1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) Memory at e3000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: <available only to root>
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The nvidia frame buffer + X server combination isnt supported. Either use nvidia X and text mode or frame buffer and XFree86_fb (unaccelerated) I believe this is supposed to get fixed by 2.4