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Re: nv driver turns monitor off on X start



* martin f krafft <madduck@debian.org> [040604 02:31]:

> I just hooked a friend up with Debian and we failed to get his
> nvidia card working. Using just the nv driver, X starts and has no
> errors in the log, but the screen just blanks and the monitor goes
> into sleep mode. The system remains responsive, I can SSH and
> everything's fine again when we stop X. Using the vesa driver works
> fine, but we want/need OpenGL!
> 
> Any clues?

I once had a monitor, which disliked the DPMS option in the montitor
settings with the same symptons you described. Removing it solved the
problem in my case.


Yours sincerely,
  Alexander

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