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  1. Bug #33075
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 33075

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Stafford Ritchie (sleepyastronaut) wrote : Re: Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)

Another thumbs up for <email address hidden> 's custom EDID for the Dell Inspiron 8200!

Using a lucid lynx 10.04 LTS, encountered black screen on boot after activating the nvidia accelerated graphics driver (version 96) from the "hardware drivers" panel.

Resolved by downloading kelvin's custom EDID and adding the following to an empty xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
    Identifier "Videocard0"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-0"
    Option "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/nvnew.raw"
EndSection

Reboot, then install nvidia-96 from synaptic package manager, not from "hardware drivers" panel.
Reboot, accelerated graphics driver works at 1600x1200. Added option lines back into new xorg.conf to be sure.

RE: kelvin's original post http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=01b4dfe277db5fe8829dea65591c6b49&t=79650&page=3
and these theads at ubuntu forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=666478
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766227

<email address hidden> 's custom EDID attached.

Best wishes!