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I'm having trouble with my display. I have white lines flickering across the screen. My graphics card: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev 15) I didn't ...
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    Need help with display: Using graphics card Nvidia Vanta

    I'm having trouble with my display. I have white lines flickering across the
    screen.
    My graphics card:
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT] (rev 15)

    I didn't have an xorg.conf file so I made one:
    Code:
    Xorg -configure
    It gave me the following xorg.conf file:
    Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier "X.org Configured"
    Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    EndSection

    Section "Files"
    RgbPath "/etc/X11/rgb"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi"
    FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi"
    FontPath "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
    EndSection

    Section "Module"
    Load "GLcore"
    Load "dbe"
    Load "glx"
    Load "extmod"
    Load "xtrap"
    Load "record"
    Load "dri"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Keyboard0"
    Driver "kbd"
    EndSection

    Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier "Mouse0"
    Driver "mouse"
    Option "Protocol" "auto"
    Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
    EndSection

    Section "Monitor"
    #DisplaySize 360 270 # mm
    Identifier "Monitor0"
    VendorName "HSL"
    ModelName "76d"
    ### Comment all HorizSync and VertRefresh values to use DDC:
    HorizSync 30.0 - 96.0
    VertRefresh 47.0 - 150.0
    Option "DPMS"
    EndSection

    Section "Device"
    ### Available Driver options are:-
    ### Values: <i>: integer, <f>: float, <bool>: "True"/"False",
    ### <string>: "String", <freq>: "<f> Hz/kHz/MHz"
    ### [arg]: arg optional
    #Option "SWcursor" # [<bool>]
    #Option "HWcursor" # [<bool>]
    #Option "NoAccel" # [<bool>]
    #Option "ShadowFB" # [<bool>]
    #Option "UseFBDev" # [<bool>]
    #Option "Rotate" # [<str>]
    #Option "VideoKey" # <i>
    #Option "FlatPanel" # [<bool>]
    #Option "FPDither" # [<bool>]
    #Option "CrtcNumber" # <i>
    #Option "FPScale" # [<bool>]
    #Option "FPTweak" # <i>
    #Option "DualHead" # [<bool>]
    Identifier "Card0"
    Driver "nv"
    VendorName "nVidia Corporation"
    BoardName "NV6 [Vanta/Vanta LT]"
    BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
    EndSection

    Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device "Card0"
    Monitor "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 1
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 4
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 8
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 15
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 16
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
    Viewport 0 0
    Depth 24
    EndSubSection
    EndSection
    With this file I can't get a display (only a blank screen with some color).
    Can someone help to edit this card?

    Thanks

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    I'd fire up a LiveCd and copy the xorg.conf from there and edit it to your needs. Just makes it simple.
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