black screen with nVidia ia32 driver and GEForce 6150
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Thu Jan 19 21:40:41 UTC 2006
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 04:26:20PM -0500, David Niemi wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 11:30 -0700, Charles Curley wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:38:17AM -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> > > On 1/19/06, David Niemi <drn_temp2 at rogers.com> wrote:
> > > > To resolve an offset screen annoyance I am trying the nVidia driver from
> > > > the nVidia site. Installation goes fine, I made requisite changes to
> > > > xorg.conf but when I boot I get nothing displayed on my LCD Screen.
> > > >
> > >
> > > As far as your offset screen problem, can you adjust it with the
> > > controls on the LCD display? Is there an autodetect or reset button?
> > > Can you force the nv driver to drive the display differently? Is the
> > > display running over VGA or DVI?
> >
> > xvidtune is your friend.
>
> Neat, all this stuff that gets installed that we have no idea about!
>
> Do you know of any good web sites for using this with FC4? I have the
> man page and many Google hits are for FC 1, 2, 3 with some problems
> about saving the settings, etc. I'll keep searching anyway.
Not off-hand. I've been using it for so long, my age is showing. :-)
Do make a backup of your xorg.conf file (or whatever it's called this
week).
>
> While adjusting the monitor is possible, it is hooked to a KVM and 3
> other computers so it not really an option.
No, I'd say xvidtune is the way to go.
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