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Old 27th May 2005 | 22:47
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FunkyMunky
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Unhappy Linux display problems

For all the resident gurus out there....


I'm having some problems with Mandriva 2005 LE and the nvidia display drivers.

Initially they worked ok, but then I made some changes to my xorg.conf in order to get TwinView working. I did the usual, ctrl_alt_backspace, startx to restart the x server and it all worked, but on the next reboot, it all went ***s up. The system appears to boot ok, indeed when in runlevel 3 it goes to the terminal perfectly...no errors at all. When I try to start X however, the screen goes black and just sits there before a couple of minutes, before turning white and doing nothing...I've left it for hours and nothing has happened. I can revert to my old xorg.conf which doesn't use the nvidia drivers and restart ok, or I can reboot into failsafe mode, reinstall the nvidia drivers and then init 5...everything works. As soon as I reboot however, it all goes wonky again.

Any ideas?
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