[SOLVED] NVIDIA GeForce GT 720 Drivers

[rokytnji]

Some Nvidia chips play nice with the new xorg and nouveau drivers. Some don't, (think kernel). My Acer Desktop computer nvidia chip was one.

invoking inxi in terminal would scramble my screen. I made me a

http://pastebin.com/J7U0Hizw

because of that nouveau issue and the new xorg and kernel issues combination.

Blank monitor, flicker, snow, or other random live image corruption If you use dual-head (two video outputs in use) or dual-link (a very high resolution monitor), and the VBIOS has too low clocks by default, the video memory bandwitdh will be insufficient for scanout. This can lead to a blank image, or live image corruption, that changes on every vertical refresh, and likely does not show up in screencaptures. For the monitor, this is not a case of an unsupported video mode but random video data.
Raising the card performance mode might help. Ask on IRC, #nouveau channel, how to do that. Instructions are not given here, because in the worst case, it may destroy your card, because power management is still a work in progress.

So instead of risking destroying my soldered in nvidia chip. I just went with the generic vesa driver with that file I made.
Then installed the proprietary nvidia driver later on.

Different distro, hardware, blah blah blah. So hopefully your friend has good luck and does not have to jump through hoops like I needed to.

Doh. Forgot the link. http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/Trou.../#index7h3
In case things go south.