Translations:NVIDIA/nvidia-drivers/45/en

Xorg says it can't find any screens
When you boot up your computer and end up with a black screen or a console prompt instead of your GUI; you can press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to bring up a console prompt if you don't already have one. Then you can run:

to see the output of Xorg. If one of the first errors is that Xorg can't find any screens, then follow these steps to resolve your issue.

It should be enough to run the following command before rebooting:

But if that doesn't work, run lspci and you'll find your video card starts off like this: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: make and model of videocard

Take the first bit, 01.00.0 and put it in your /etc/X11/xorg.conf with the BusID option: {{FileBox|filename=/etc/X11/xorg.conf|lang=xorg_conf|1=
 * 1) this is not the whole file, only the part that needs edited
 * 2) the file should already exist after running nvidia-xconfig