I am unable to properly configure the proprietary NVIDIA drivers on my Shuttle XPC system in Ubuntu 9.04. When I use the xorg.conf file from the previous Ubuntu install (8.10, IIRC) with the 185.18.31 drivers, the screen turns black and does not show the default X background and cursor. The strange part is that I can reproduce the behavior with the open-source 'nv' driver, with the proprietary drivers uninstalled and the kernel module unloaded.

I'm running the 9.04 vendor-patched 2.6.18-11 kernel on a Shuttle FN27 V1.3 (according to the motherboard) with the latest BIOS and an NVIDIA GeFroce 7600GS. I've checked the Xorg.0 log and both drivers (teh proprietary and the open-source) appear to be configuring the card correctly and detecting the native resolution of the LCD panels (1440x900) correctly, but when I start the bare X server with either driver set, all I get is a blank screen with no core pointer and no default background.

I updated the BIOS just prior to installing 9.04, so I never tried to make the new BIOS work with Ubuntu 8.10, so I'm thinking that a BIOS change (or a mis-configured BIOS setting) is responsible for this problem.

I've attached the bootup-saved /var/log/dmesg, the output of 'lspci -v' and the Xorg.0 log file from an attempt to start the server with the open-source 'nv' driver.

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	dmesg.txt (49.4 KB, 7 views)
	lspci.txt (9.0 KB, 12 views)
	Xorg.0.log.txt (41.1 KB, 9 views)