black screen with nVidia ia32 driver and GEForce 6150

[David Niemi]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 17:00 -0500, David Niemi wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Charles Curley" <charlescurley at charlescurley.com>
> 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).

Thanks for the warning Rickey but xvidtune was a bust. It gives me the
message that this chipset is not tunable.  Oh, well, continue trying and
hoping that nVidia comes out with support forth chipset in Linux.