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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 had probs using the drivers from the repositories too. I only was able 
to resolve it by downloading the driver from nVidia's site and following 
their simple directions..
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