I am still getting a black screen on boot.
The install from Nvidia's site successfully completes.

however it appears that the nvidia.ko isn't getting loaded into the kernal.

i did an insmod and it errors :-/ any ideas on what might cause this?

the issue:
am going to get debian working on my computer. I have it installed.
but when you boot, after grub it appears to start xwindows then the screen goes black... I went on the cd in recue mode and tried to install the driver but no luck. The weird thing is once I am in rescue mode and do a startx gnome comes up but I can't use my mouse or keyboard. When you boot up normally I hear a sound through my speakers and the keyboard leds are working so that tells me that the keyboard is working although my monitor isn't.

OS: debian 6.0.2.1

Do you have two video cards? I remember an issue I had when I used Ubuntu(Which is based on Debian) and my NVidia card where it would detect the NVidia card, but would default to the on-board video card, and I had to manually edit xorg.conf and point it to the PCI address of the NVidia card. If you've got two cards, try moving the monitor cable onto your on-board card and see if it works then.

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Nope, its an integrated "video card" after installing the driver it did make a xorg.conf.. it is listed below.

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 280.13 (buildmeister@swio-display-x86-rhel47-05.nvidia.com) Wed Jul 27 17:18:55 PDT 2011

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection