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[Geoff McClinsey <713867@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree this is a show stopper for a lot of people. I have never had any
issues with my system using NVIDIA until I switched my setup to how I
described above. Before that I was using a VGA to DVI converter but then
i noticed the weight of the VGA plug was pulling down on the port and I
couldn't allow that.

I was so sure I had found the culprit to all the black screen on install
problems. But I still think I will find what I reported actually effects
alot of people. Just not you.

not trying to stear you away from the open source drivers but im curious
what the 270 nvidia drivers will do for you as you said you have issues
with the ones immediately available to you threw ubuntu as well.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-current-modaliases nvidia-settings

Then go to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers and make sure
"Nvidia current" (you should already have this selected we are just
making sure it is still. before we did the steps above it was using the
190 something version driver probably. Now it is using the 270 version.
If current version is selected then restart

(this is driver I am using after all issues with install)

when pc comes back up you can check which driver is being used by running cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
do you have any of the above issues with this driver? also please copy and paste the output of cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version

like i said im not trying to stear you away from the open source
version. I just want to report if all issues are resolved using latest
closed source driver.

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Title:
  Live-CD and Installed Ubuntu freeze on boot with GeForce 210 / Nouveau