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Saturday, October 27, 2007

Black Screen for Nvidia GeForce 420

According this post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=417188
Add the following to /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP" or
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-0"

Mine looks like this after editing:

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation NV17 [GeForce4 420 Go]"
Driver "nvidia"
# Driver "nv"
Busid "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "AddARGBVisuals" "True"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection