Ubuntu 9.10 Nvidia drivers and black screen after reboot

[jcxaver]

nothing from your suggestions above helps me on Sony Vaio vgn z31xn with nVidia GeForce 9300 GS

[luxotek]

Since this is the first thread i checked (first in google) when i got this problem i'm gonna post my solution here and hopefully save someone some hair pulling.

I installed ubuntu 9.10 and was getting the dreaded black screen of death with every single nvidia driver release (97.x, 176.x 180.x 185.x 190.x 195.x) searched all over the place and even tried some old tricks (rolling back libc6 and its friends to ubuntu9 which worked on a lot of the other deb distros like sabayon). I even tried the nouveau driver (same problem)

but since there's nail-biting suspense here for all the people with this problem i'll keep a 16 hour story as short as above.

my relevant specs:
amd 5000+
MSI 9370-v2(?) (k9n v2)
nvidia 9500gt X2 (sli with bridge)

here's how i FINALLY got a working nvidia driver installed

this time i started with a clean OS (just to be sure)
i updated everything in synaptics (did not reboot)
followed the directions here to install the 190.42 nvidia drivers (did not reboot)
ran

sudo nvidia-xconfig

(did not reboot)
ran

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

(got tired of using nano)

added to the device section:

Option       "ConnectedMonitor" "DFP-0"
   BusID       "PCI:5:0:0"

added to the screen section:

 Option       "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-0"

and since i didn't want to run any chances i dropped in the display section just to be sure

Modes "1920x1200"

and saved xorg.conf

NOW I REBOOTED (and crossed my fingers)

yahtzee...

i've attached my xorg.conf just incase any one needs it.
the tricky part for me was figuring out which video card was used as primary since i have PCI:4:0:0 and PCI:5:0:0 - but a little spelunking thru xorg.0.log and the NV drivers told me everything i needed.

i sincerely hopes this works for you guys... and helps at least someone from enduring the 16 hour frustrate-a-thon i went thru.

now - to get SLI working again... sigh

[jcxaver]

looks nice, so I tried your solution

worked not on my vaio

[luxotek]

looks nice, so I tried your solution

worked not on my vaio

ah man that sucks

have you taken a look at xorg.0.log because it was that log file that told me what my problem was.

[ebharv]

Thanks, luxotex!! I had a black screen coming up when I booted my machine but this fixed the problem.
I'm also using 9800GT cards. After two days of searching forums everywhere this is the only one that helped.

Thanks again, I thought I was going to have to go back to windows for a while

[ks0ft]

I had similar issue when upgrading from 9.04 to Ubuntu 9.10

nedflenders - thanks for this, I'm up and running on 173

[jusce]

I'm having the same problem with my Vaio, nothing worked for me...

[jcxaver]

I'm having the same problem with my Vaio, nothing worked for me...

tried todays new updates of kernel, tried nvidia proprietary drivers(190), worked not.

I can start my vaio without any xorg.conf, vaio switch always in speed (means nvidia) position, and I can see that I have both drivers (using hwinfo -gfxcards, modprobe), i915 and nvidia active, but I can not use hdmi output. That is my main trouble, unable to use hdmi output. Normal VGA output works.

I tried to uninstall intel video drivers, and I had to install it quickly again, I had black screen only .
I think that no nvidia driver never worked on my vaio, why?
How to fix this vaio problems?

I have followed, succesfully, but without understanding , all http://global-social.net/tiki-view_b...ntel_xorg.conf instructions.
Now I have led stamina, speed o.k. but when I switch to speed mode, I am like a blind, Nvidia show some strange unreadeable effects and that's all.
In stamina mode it worked.

I runned sudo nvidia-xconfig,
I checked that I have two xorg.conf.INTEL , xorg.conf.NVIDIA

And I am a happy man!!!!!
I am running on my Dell 2209WA LCD using hdmi and nvidia card.

[11g]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/267241

1. list the device:
myname@pc1:/etc/X11$ lspci | grep -i vga
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] (rev a1)
2. edit xorg.conf under /etc/X11 and append BUSID with the displayed value

myname@pc1:/etc/X11$ cat xorg.conf

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Busid "PCI:2:0:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

for me it helped

[patryk77]

I also had the same problem on my Sony VAIO

The solution posted at http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/show...3&postcount=22 worked for me

I just have to get HDMI working again now, but at least I have the screen.