linux.gentoo.user

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 4:05 AM, Daevid Vincent wrote:
>
> > >> I emerge again, and it gives me 96.43.05.
> > >> Now when I start X, I have a blank/black screen.
> > >>
> > > This driver is NOT working with my card.
>
> Okay I followed the Wiki as instructed to the letter. Same EXACT problem. It
> all seems to go fine, but I get a black screen when X starts. Not like a
> back-lit one either. Like "power off" black. I know X is running, I can see
> the processes, and it doesn't seem locked up either. I just can't see
> anything.
I also have a nVidia 440 Go with the same problem. I fixed by
including the line

Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"

in the "Screen" section of /etc/X11/xorg.xonf. However, now I can't
use an external Monitor/Beamer.

>
> Thanks for the ideas, I think it's just this P.O.S. card and the fact that
> nVidia is screwing me by not supporting it anymore in these later drivers.
> Not sure why Willie's works though. That is curious, hopeful and frustrating
> at the same time.

I think nVidia is to blame! It once worked flawlessly.

Regards,
Henry
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