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From: Richard Asbridge 
Subject: Re: Nvidia driver problem
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On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:27:20 +0000, Seaside Peter wrote:

> Running 6.10 with an Nvidia FX5900XT graphics card.
[snip] 
> 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?
In short I don't think you're doing anything wrong.

I had a 5900 and it *DID NOT* like any form of framebufferyness in
conjunction with the nvidia driver. The symptoms were as you describe. My
system would boot and as it got to loading X the whole video system would
lock up and the dreaded black screen would appear. 

In /boot/grub/menu.lst add "vga=normal" to the end of the line that starts
with "# defoptions" then run sudo update-grub from the command prompt.
This will disable framebuffer in the kernel. Give that a try, you can
always take it out again and re-run the update-grub command if it doesn't
work.
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