Xorg-6.8.2 & nVIDIA GeForce 2 MX: console video / VT problem

[Joseph E. Sacco, Ph.D.]

I have encountered another problem running Xorg-6.8.2 on a G4 Silver
with an NVIDIA GeForce2 MX card:

        Text is no longer visible when switching to a virtual terminal
        or after existing X.

Consider the following sequence:
* set up to use Xorg-6.8.2
* reboot for good measure
* system comes up, white text is visible on a black background
* startx
* switch to VT
	==> solid black screen, no text visible
* exit X
	==> solid black screen, no text visible

* blindly type "startx"
X comes up so key board works

* exit X
	==> solid black screen, no text visible

* blindly type "reboot"
	==> system reboots, text returns.

Looks like the video card is not being "reset", whatever that means.

Thoughts???

-Joseph

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