newbie dual boot grub menu failure

[nbob]

Hello. I'm running a dual-boot with linux mint and Windows. I have an E-machines desktop with :
760 GB Hard Drive
6GB RAM
NVidia GeForce Graphics card 6150se Integrated
AMD Athalon II X2 235e dual-core processor

My problem is getting my grub to boot into Linux Mint, and the problem may lie with my graphics card. Whenever I install the linux mint for the first time, I am prompted to activate my proprietary NVidia graphics driver, which I do. Then I am asked to reboot. Upon reboot, the system gets to the grub menu, accepts my selection to boot linux mint, then the "progress dots" appear on the screen. After about 8 seconds, the screen switches into command prompt mode. I never get to the graphical sign-on screen. All I get is the console sign-on prompts. From there my only option seems to be to reboot. (sudu reboot). After which, of course, I am forced to go into Windows vs. Linux to avoid the problem. Once Windows has loaded up, I do a restart and go back into Linux Mint . Finally, I get to the Linux sign-on graphical screen.

To summarize, i cannot restart linux mint without getting stuck staring at a console screen. I can get back into linux mint if i use the command 'sudo reboot', and, from the grub menu, choosing to go into Windows. From Windows, I then do a restart and end up back at the grub screen again, but this time when I select linux mint, things work and I am given the sign-on gui.

If I choose to not install the graphics driver (and put up with the annoying reminder to activate one), the system dual boots without a problem.

[hatebreed]

which drive did you install? have you looked at your xorg log files to see what is messing up? I would do an nvidia-xconfig and see if this helps any.

[nbob]

Hi and thanks for the help.

The Driver I installed was the current and recommended driver, although I've tried the other 2 and they exhibited the same behavior.
The Drive I am installed on is /dev/sda6
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I get the following errors in my Xorg.0.log file:

(EE) May 24 23:04:16 NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA kernel module. Please see the
(EE) May 24 23:04:16 NVIDIA(0): system's kernel log for additional error messages and
(EE) May 24 23:04:16 NVIDIA(0): consult the NVIDIA README for details.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.

Fatal server error:
no screens found
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When I try nvidia-xconfig I get the following response:

Using X configuration file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf".

VALIDATION ERROR: Data incomplete in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Undefined Device "(null)" referenced by Screen "Default
Screen".


ERROR: Unable to write to directory '/etc/X11'.
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I hope this helps.