11.10 black and white vertical lines on boot up

[comsparks]

I have a Geforce FX 5600 card with 256MB. I'm using the Nvidia driver for it. When I boot up I get the B/W vertical lines then it goes black then the desktop appears. Sometimes it hangs in the B/W vert mode and I have to reboot. In that mode you can't read anything. Anyone have any ideas what is causing it and how to correct it. Thanks.

[wildmanne39]

Hi, it sounds like your video card driver is not working like it should you should be able to use a nomodeset parameter to boot ubuntu so you can uninstall your nvidia driver and try another one.

I personally have to use the older version driver as I suspect you will need to also.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1613132
Thank you

[comsparks]

It was the Nvidia drivers. I tried different ones but they were doing the same thing. I finally got rid of the Nvidia drivers and everything looks good and working properly. Thanks.

[wildmanne39]

Hi, I am glad it is working!
Enjoy