After upgrading to the 304.84 driver, the display of my virtual terminals (TTY) is all messed up. I can still type commands, but I can’t see them. Instead, all I see is a black screen with a blue cursor and blue vertical lines (screenshot). If I downgrade to the 304.64 driver, the virtual terminals appear correctly. The report generated by nvidia-bug-report.sh only includes this uname line:
Linux sulley 3.2.0-38-generic #61-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 19 12:18:21 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
vga=normal causes the boot to happen in text mode instead of the graphical splash screen. However, after X comes up, the virtual terminals are still broken, only this time instead of blue lines and a blue cursor, I get a black screen and an oversized flashing white cursor about halfway toward the center of the screen.
I’ve got the same problem with a GTX Titan, i7-3770 that I’m using for CUDA, so not being able to escape to the TTY to run the CUDA is kind of a problem!! (wink) I’m on Ubuntu 11.10 b/c that’s what CUDA said it wanted, with NVIDIA 313.26 and CUDA Toolkit 5.0, all created earlier this week. [url]http://justpaste.it/275m[/url] from my sudo nvidia-bug-report.sh, hope it helps.
I can confirm that 304.84 breaks on a GeForce 7950 GT (3.7.10-gentoo #3 SMP Mon Mar 18 01:08:52 PDT 2013 x86_64 AMD Phenom™ II X4 810 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux).