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From: Jon Smid
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Seaside Peter wrote:
> Running 6.10 with an Nvidia FX5900XT graphics card.
>
> Following the instructions on the Edgy forum I did sudo apt-get install
> nvidia-glx nvidia-kernel-common, followed by sudo nvidia-xconfig.
>
> The word nvidia was written to xorg.conf in place of nv.
>
> However - rebooting just gives me a black screen. I have to go into
> recovery mode and re-write nv as the driver in xorg.conf to get a screen
> up.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
I got Nvidia only working by :
Removing the /lib/linux-restricted-modules/2.6.17-10-generic/nvidia*
And downloading/running (=compiling) from their site.
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