[ATrpms-users] No video output using Nvidia 169.09...

[Jim Chandler]

Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 09:14:55PM -0400, Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>>     
>>> Axel Thimm wrote:
>>>
>>> In either case check out the contents of /var/log/Xorg.0.log.
>>>       
>> I have nothing in there flagged as an error (EE), the only suspicious stuff is the 
>> warnings (WW)...
>>
>> This is what I have under warnings:
>>
>>          (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>> (WW) Open ACPI failed (/var/run/acpid.socket) (No such file or directory)
>> (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-0
>> (WW) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Unable to read EDID for display device CRT-1
>> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Unable to get display device CRT-0's EDID; cannot compute DPI
>> (WW) NVIDIA(0):     from CRT-0's EDID.
>>
>> Shouldn't it be able to read the EDID and could that be the cause of my problems?
>>     
>
> I don't think that this causes the error you see. It's just about the DPI.
>
> Does switching to the console work or is just screen always blacked out?
>   

Have you tried disabling EDID in the xorg.conf file?  Here is my device 
section:

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Videocard0"
        Driver      "nvidia"
        Option      "TVStandard" "HD1080i"
        #Option      "TVStandard" "HD720p"
        Option      "Connection Monitor" "DFP"
        Option      "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
        Option      "UseEDID" "FALSE"
        Option "DPMS"
EndSection