Nvidia - Opening "System Settings/Display" gives BLACk Screen on 24" monitor

[e.c.field]

I have successfully installed the recommended Nvidia 185 drivers. I'm using an Acer 24" monitor and it recognized the monitor and defaulted to the proper 1920x1200 resolution.
Every time I select System Settings and click on Display, I get an all black screen and a moving window that says "input not allowed". The only way to get out of it is a hard reset or power off/on.
I've tried the other two (older) Nvidia driver sets and they both do the same thing.
Every thing else appears to work properly at this point.
Any ideas?

[dibl]

Re: Nvidia - Opening "System Settings/Display" gives BLACk Screen on 24" monitor

Every time I select System Settings and click on Display, I get an all black screen

As the doctor famously said ... "Then stop doing that to yourself".

That utility is not for the user who is using a proprietary driver. Forget you ever heard of it.

Do Alt-F2 "nvidia-settings" (without the quote marks) to access the nvidia driver's display utility. More details are here:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3107406.0




By the way, you almost NEVER need to push the power switch. Next time you are convinced that is the only way out of your problem, try this:

Press and hold down Alt-SysRq and then press, slowly in sequence, R S E I U B and watch your system gracefully restart, without filesystem damage.

[e.c.field]

Re: Nvidia - Opening "System Settings/Display" gives BLACk Screen on 24" monitor

Thanks for both of the tips. They are much ppreciated.