nvidia driver problems

[Christoph Georgi]

Concerning your "grabled screen" problem: Try and change in your BIOS 
the Boot Screen to "Auto" (usually it's on "Both").

christoph

Kristian Hermansen wrote:
> I am new to Ubuntu, but have been fooling around with Linux for years
> and just recently got over Gentoo recently.  Anyways, I am having a
> problem that I once had in Gentoo as well that may have something to do
> with the XFree configuration.  I am running a laptop that has a
> widescreen 1280x800 resolution that has problems with both the nv and
> nvidia drivers.  If I use the nv driver, whenever I try to switch to the
> terminal windows with ctrl-alt-fx I get a grabled screen with a weird
> refresh problem.  If I switch back to X with ctrl-alt-f7, everything
> gets back to normal.
> 
> I really want to use the nvidia driver instead because this seems to be
> a known issue with the nv driver on widescreen laptops.  The problem is
> that the nvidia driver only produces a blank screen on bootup!  I can
> hear the drum roll in Warty prompting me at the login screen, but I get
> nothing on the screen.  Just black.  This must be a common issue and I
> might be doing something stupid, however, I also ran into this with the
> latest nvidia drivers 66xx in Gentoo -- although 6111 worked just fine.
> Has anyone seen this screen blanking issue with the nvidia driver
> before, most likely occurring on widescreen laptops???  Thanks in
> advance...