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http://www.backtrack-linux.org – Installed BT5-R3 and installed NVIDIA drive and got "no screens" error. I have been trying to work on this myself for the past 2 weeks, and have not been able to resolve it, so I need some help. I have searched, read, and tried everything I could find, with no luck. From what I have gathered I guess it may have to do with intel and NVIDIA together? I tried some things that fixed others issues, but did not work for me. Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @2.3GHz NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M Intel(R) HD Graphics Family I didn't copy info from log, but did from the main error screen. I a (HowTos)

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Submitted by Shoutmeloud on 10/21/2012

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