Comment 16 for bug 556872

[ FOUND WORK-AROUND ]

I have it working. I simply hit ESC at the grub prompt and F6, then added the lines:

xforcevesa i915.blacklist=true nouveau.modeset=0 nouveau blacklist=true

before the "--" at the end of the parameters. After the installation, i rebooted and couldn't even pull up Grub - it was that bad. I booted back into the live cd and mounted the local drive and changed the line for the generic kernel in /boot/grub.cfg to have the options mentioned above which did nothing. (I personally hate buying bleeding edge hardware.) I rebooted into the live cd, chrooted and removed nouveau-drivers with aptitude. rebooted - black screen. I rebooted into the Live-CD, and performed these chroot procedures:

mkdir /mnt/hdd mounted /sys /proc /dev /dev/pts with --bind, chrooted /mnt/hdd

installed linux-headers-`uname -r` and ran:

wget: http://de.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/195.22/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-195.22-pkg1.run -O nvidia.sh && ./nvidia.sh Install went perfectly, updated my xconfig file, etc, rebooted - black screen.

rebooted into Live-CD and performed same chroot procedures, ran synaptic and REMOVED all NVIDIA drivers, then removed i915 drivers. Re-ran the ./nvidia.sh script and re-installed NVIDIA 195.55.x drivers i downloaded above. - rebooted and black screen!!

Alrighty, now I'm a mad nerd.

Follow the chroot instructions above, then editted /etc/default/grub.cfg and changed the line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" to:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nouveau.modeset=0 nouveau.blacklist=true i915.blacklist=true"

i put the intel thing in there even through i tossed the drivers previously in the story above, because i was just mad. Then, I ran

update-grub2

which works in the chrooted environment. Then I rebooted, and I finally saw X. It failed really badly and said that it was in low-graphics mode and asked me to select a mode, I selected Low graphics mode.

Then, when i got Gnome I did CTRL+ALT+F2 and killed GDM with

/etc/init.d/gdm stop

which didn't kill it until I actually went back to that pts CTRL+ALT+F7 and clicked "OK" to the message displayed. (lame). Then, I ran the nvidia.sh installer and this time there were no errors. I let it update my xorg file and exited.
Then I updated it anyways:

nvidia-xconfig

and did /etc/init.d/gdm start

And I saw the BETA DRIVER NVIDIA splash image and X was in perfect resolution! After I rebooted, saw X, and I celebrated.