Nvidia GT 430 - Black video when play movie

[blueocean123]

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 64bit. I just bought the Zotac Geforce GT 430. I downloaded and installed the driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-275.21.run. (from nvidia.com)

Everything seems alright except that I can only see black video when I play any kind of movie (avi, mkv, mov, ..) while the sound is still playing.

Previously, I could watch any movie well with the onboard graphic card. My mainboard is Gigabyte GA-H55M-S2V.


I don't know what really happens. Please help. Thanks.

[blueocean123]

This morning I turn my PC on, used Skype, Firefox, .. then my PC was frozen. I restarted it and .. the problem is gone. Hell, weird. I did restart my PC several times last night.

Well, problem solved itself. Is it driver-loading confused ?

[brian70809]

Did you turn off the onboard graphics from your BIOs?

I have had problems like this with nvidia drivers, but not recently. I run the same card or a 450.. i can't remember at home. No problems for me with current drivers.

[lovabill]

same problem here. onboard intel chipset playbacks well but I just hardwared an GTS 450 and the video is black the sound is good.

i guess its a bug or something.

[Chromos]

i got the problem with gt 540m