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Happens to me all the time. It's because you haven't installed the nvidia drivers. You can also, like devries says, modify the settings of your monitor, but -depending on monitor, phase of the moon, etc- you'll have the same problem reversed in windows. The best solution is perhaps installing the drivers.

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/my bad.

I was sure I installed the nvidia driver, but re-installed, this time I did rtfm, and now have no more black strip. glxgears shows 5340 FPS.

Yay.

However, now mdk boots into init 3, I have to do /sbin/modprobe nvidia, then startx.

 

I remember having a note that a line must be added somewhere so it will boot normally, but can't find it. (Never been neat, but usually I don't throw out such stuff. Aargh.)

 

Does anyone have that needed line, and where to put it?

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Fixed it - I put /sbin/modprobe nvidia into /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.

It boots as it should.

 

Also found a note:

With the new NVIDIA 6629 drivers, you also have to add this line:

Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"

to the Section "Device" of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file if you want to use the composite options and have GLX / 3d acceleration. The README warns that this may have negative effects on the displaying of OpenGL applications.

 

I didn't see this in the README, and it seems to do nothing. (?)

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