On 12/15/10 09:40:48, Dale wrote: > Hi again, > > For those mot up to date. I built a new rig that has a Nvidia GT220 > card in it. I bought a brand new monitor this morning, a LG W2253, > and > it worked one time. I had to reboot to move some things around and > when > I rebooted, the GUI doesn't come up. The BIOS screen shows up and I > can > see the services start up as well but when it switches to vt7, it > just > > has a little blinking cursor at the top.
Have you changed the kernel? The nvidia-drivers (as well as the ati- drivers) have to be re-emerged after (nearly) any change to the kernel. Just re-emerge it, unload and reload the corresponding kernel module and try again to startx. Helmut.