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affected machine: Pentium 4 with GPU NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600
NVIDIA driver version: 173.14.16
VBIOS Version: 04.31.20.40.00
Bus Type: AGP 8X

Ubuntu version: 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

After initial installation of the ubuntu everything was OK (except that
there no advanced XServer features are available). Afterwards I
activated the proprietary accelerated NVIDIA Xserver (marked as
"recommended") . It started to work without any complaints. However the
text console became an unusable mixture of colors and text:

Most of the screen area covered by a colour rectangle hiding most of
eventual text. The login/password prompt shown twice: in the upper left
corner and in the lower right corner. Practically unusable. Each of the
6 text consoles (accessible by Ctrl-Alt-F<n>) equally affected.

The problem is the same after every boot of the machine.

In graphical sessions everything looks fine (GoogleEarth works, for
example).

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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XServer acceleration (NVIDIA 173) turns text console into unusable mess
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/420685
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