Problem with nvidia driver and GeForce 8800

Hi,
I installed nvidia driver with guide on arch wiki.
But unluckily when i typed "startx", my monitor lost signal and i dont have any other option then restart computer.
This is not for the first time when it happened. I have exactly same problem in every other distribution.
I have GeForce 8800gts and LCD monitor Samsung SyncMaster 204b.
And there isnt problem with hardware because in MS Windows or with VESA driver it works fine.
Here is mine Xorg.conf
http://www.blankpage.ic.cz/xorg.conf
Please, have somebody any ideas how to make it works?

Your not the only one with nividia problems
But on a more serious note, have you tried all configuration steps outlined in the Arch Wiki?
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Last edited by jwele (2012-07-04 21:00:37)

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Vazz wrote:Hello, I've got a problem I assume with nvidia driver. My graphics card is gtx 460, here's my usual glxgears output:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16474487/noerror.png
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16474487/error.png
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I would like to try and use the open source ati driver over the proprietary fglrx driver, however when I use this driver and I try to test my Xorg configuration it enters into X without any problems (mouse cursor appears and is functional) but when I Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to exit back to the console my screen resolution is completely distorted so that I can't read anything. I can enter commands and can only use a reboot command to get it functional again. I do not have this problem with the fglrx driver.
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It is very possible to have direct rendering on YOUR card (r5xx) with the radeon(ati) driver, but you need a lot of packages that are still in testing, and it is a somewhat daunting task to sort through everything.
Most importantly, you need x-server 1.5 and mesa 7.1+
The packages that you need & are newer than core/extra are (all can be had from testing, except libgl):
mesa >= 7.1
xf86-input-evdev 2.0.4
xf86-video-ati >= 6.9.0
xorg-server >= 1.4.99.906
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Please read a lot of what's going on in this forum:
http://www.phoronix.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=43 (open source ati/amd)
I hope this gives you some hope that it can be done.
Fight the good fight FOSS for ALL!
BTW, the radeon(ati) driver is better than radeonhd for our cards!!!
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Hello guys and thanks for your answers.
I thought that my problem was linked to UEFI, so I reinstalled the os with BIOS and MBR. Unfortunately I had the same problem, with one difference: the auto/default resolution of GRUB and FrameBuffer was 800x600 instead of 1920x1080 for UEFI.
About the nouveau driver, I need 3D acceleration to play games so I need the proprietary driver.
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Then I edit the ~/.xinitrc file :
xterm & sleep 10
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I tried to log in: login + [Enter] + password + [Enter]
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And the xterm window appeared. And the best is after the 10s the X server shuts down and the framebuffer was back !!! Unbelievable !!!
So I continued the installation : Gnome + Gdm.
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Nvidia Driver and system "hang" issue

Hi all,
This is my first post on these forums but im not new to Mac or windows. Here's my issue. I just installed a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate RTM on my Macbook. Its the first unibody Macbook 2.4ghz w/ 4gigs of ram. Nvidia 9400M graphics.
2 Things happen,one is that a few times a day ill get a "Nvidia Windows Kernel mode driver, version 186.81 failed" error. The symtoms of which are a black screen for a few seconds and then the driver restarts and all is well.
I know 186.81 is the latest 9400M driver. So im not sure why this happens but maybe it relates to my other issue.
My second issue is that the system will, as best as i can describe it, "hang" for a second or two. When i say hang i do not mean freeze to the point of needing to restart, its more that the "hang" happens and a few seconds later its as if nothing happened (this issue is very fequent).
Anyone else ever see or hear anything like this? Please let me know if there is a better place to post this question as well.
Thanks!
P.S. Posted this somewhere else and got 1 reply so far, pasted below:
Okay, how about uninstall or roll back the driver?
use Driver Sweeper 2
just let Windows 7 install its own driver
more like the hang is hard drive has spun down
I would recommend creating your own thread and question instead.
by "the hatter"

Hello guys and thanks for your answers.
I thought that my problem was linked to UEFI, so I reinstalled the os with BIOS and MBR. Unfortunately I had the same problem, with one difference: the auto/default resolution of GRUB and FrameBuffer was 800x600 instead of 1920x1080 for UEFI.
About the nouveau driver, I need 3D acceleration to play games so I need the proprietary driver.
So I decided to test the X server to see if something got wrong.
I uninstalled the nvidia driver and reboot to have my framebuffer back.
Then I edit the ~/.xinitrc file :
xterm & sleep 10
I reinstalled the nvidia driver and reboot : GRUB, then framebuffer for 1 second, then a black screen.
I tried to log in: login + [Enter] + password + [Enter]
I waited 2s then I entered the "startx" command.
And the xterm window appeared. And the best is after the 10s the X server shuts down and the framebuffer was back !!! Unbelievable !!!
So I continued the installation : Gnome + Gdm.
After the reboot : Grub, then framebuffer for 1 second, then a black screen, then Gdm login screen !!!
So it seems to be a problem with nvidia driver and the framebuffer.
After the Gnome + Gdm installation I managed to display the framebuffer in tty2. But I don't know if tty2 was working before (when tty1 only display black screen).
My conclusion and installation tip is to not reboot after the nvidia driver installation and to install a desktop environment + a display manager and to pray to not have problem.

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I've got a little problem with nvidia driver. I removed stock kernel and compiled my own. Then I installed nvidia drivers (from nvidia.com) and everythings gone fine. But after reboot Xserver doesn't seem to start. The only way to run X is to reinstall nvidia drivers (after every reboot)... anyone knows any solution for that?

Log:
(**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
(==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
(==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
(==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo" "on"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "TripleBuffer" "on"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals"
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module! Please ensure
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that there is a supported NVIDIA GPU in this system, and
(EE) NVIDIA(0): that the NVIDIA device files have been created properly.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
Fatal server error:
no screens found

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