I followed the instructions for installing NVidia drivers exactly (and only did so after X came up using the "nv" default driver). When I started X after following the instructions, it only came up after many minutes of blackness in which ctl-alt-backspace did nothing. I got up and killed a bunch of time and came back, and X was running just fine. I found the following hints at forums.gentoo.com: <quote> Try adding the following line to your Device section: Option "IgnoreDisplayDevices" "DFP,TV" </quote> My X startup time went from minutes to 5 seconds! While others may have had no problems at all, I think an additional blurb would be a Good Thing! "If startx results in a blank screen that you can't seem to end, give it at least 10 minutes before despairing. If it comes up within this amount of time, add the following code:" and list the code above. Knowledge that it may take quite a long time for X to startup for some will prevent frustration at not knowing what's going on. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Follow Desktop Configuration Guide for installing NVidia driver. 2. Despair! 3. Actual Results: startx resulted in a black screen for > 5 minutes. Expected Results: X should have started in seconds.
This can be caused by any number of hardware/software configurations. Rather than explain all the config options for the nvidia drivers directly in the document, a pointer to the /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx-1.0.XXXX/README.gz should be sufficient. That file addresses all kinds of issues like this. I added the pointer to desktop.xml.
