<machine voice>More clues necessary for help response.</machine voice> What font are you using at the console level? What is your console resolution? What do you get when you put vga=ask at the kernel boot prompt and then have it scan? What kernel version? What consoletools version? Are you using fb? Have you tried changing colors? Have you tried running any vgalib programs at the console? Gerry On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 list at slushpupie.com wrote: > Ok, I have been living with this problem for some time now, and want it > fixed. I have an nVidia TNT2 AGP card, and I am using the official nVidia > drivers for it. Once I go into X, I cant get back to a terminal again.. > the screen is just black. I can type things and the system still > responds, so I know it is the video. Can anyone give some hints to fix > this? > > Jay -- Gerry Skerbitz gsker at tcfreenet.org