[ale] Xorg w/ GeForce 6100 and an almost blank screen

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Tue Aug 26 16:07:22 EDT 2008


quite strange. All the conf and logs look OK. Get out of runlevel 5, kill X,
unload the nvidia kernel module and start again.

Test the device also by using the 'nv' driver instead of nvidia in xorg.conf


laptop with external monitor on by default?

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:23 PM, <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:

> xorg.conf:  http://rafb.net/p/rdMGqh76.html
> Xorg.0.log:  http://rafb.net/p/yhweCs34.html
> startx output:  http://rafb.net/p/wBoRFg44.html
>
> All I'm able to get is a black screen with a single partial horizontal line
> of what looks like the X crosshatch pattern on the top left, not quite
> halfway across.
>
> Is there anything buried in the log that i'm missing?
>
> - Jeff
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