Ubuntu
nvidia-settings package

  1. Bug #781445
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 781445

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote : Re: Xorg's HAL causes Purple screen or Black Screen on GDM startup.

uhm, no, Xorg doesn't use HAL for anything anymore, certainly not for setting the graphics mode.

If you need to add GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD=text to /etc/default/grub, then it's a kernel bug.

moving to nvidia-settings, which shouldn't add crap to the xorg.conf.