Nvidia Black Screen
Tomas Carnecky
tom at dbservice.com
Sun Aug 17 17:13:11 PDT 2008
Patrick Hertel wrote:
>
> I have seen this same problem in past bug reports "solved" but none of
> the solutions seem to work:
>
> eg: loading manually with envy.
>
> I finally gave up on SUSE because of this and other problems so I have
> one-clicked, manually loaded with sh, looked for gparted files etc
>
> After the Nvidia driver is loaded in all cases there is a black screen
> after the boot and CTL+ALT+F1 does not do anything.
>
> Card is a 7300GT AGP
> Monitor is BENQ FP731
>
> The PC is AMD 64 bit (Gigabyte Motherboard)
>
> Version 8.04 LTS
>
You are using the closed-source driver. Xorg doesn't support it, you'll
have to go to nvidia and ask them.
They have a more or less official forum at [1] or you can try in the
#nvidia channel on irc.freenode.net.
tom
[1] http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
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