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[Stafford Ritchie <33075@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another thumbs up for kelvin@xxxxxxxxxx 's custom EDID for the Dell
Inspiron 8200!

Using a lucid lynx 10.04 LTS, encountered black screen on boot after
activating the nvidia accelerated graphics driver (version 96) from the
"hardware drivers" panel.

Resolved by downloading kelvin's custom EDID and adding the following to an empty xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Videocard0"
    Driver      "nvidia"
    Option      "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
    Option      "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP-0"
    Option      "CustomEDID" "DFP-0:/etc/X11/nvnew.raw"
EndSection

Reboot, then install nvidia-96 from synaptic package manager, not from "hardware drivers" panel.
Reboot, accelerated graphics driver works at 1600x1200.  Added option lines back into new xorg.conf to be sure.

RE: kelvin's original post http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?s=01b4dfe277db5fe8829dea65591c6b49&t=79650&page=3
and these theads at ubuntu forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=666478
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766227

Kelvin@xxxxxxxxxx 's custom EDID attached.

Best wishes!

** Attachment added: "kelvin@xxxxxxxxxx 's custom EDID for Dell (Samsung) Display in Inspiron 8200 / c840"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15/+bug/33075/+attachment/1727106/+files/kelvin_dell_display_edid.zip

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Dell Inspiron 8200 Nvidia proprietary driver causes display errors (vertical lines on the right, and mirror effect on the bottom)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33075
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