So it seems that it doesn't give a black screen all the time. Output from lspci is as follows:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Unknown device [10de:0407] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Unknown device [106b:00a0] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11 Memory at 92000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] I've included three logs. the first *.nv is from the first attempt where X actually started. The sencond, *nv2 is from my next reboot, where it did show a black screen. The last log is from an attempt at installing the Binary nvidia driver from their site. (which also failed) ** Attachment added: "Xorg.0.log.nv" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8483206/Xorg.0.log.nv -- [Gutsy Tribe 2] nv not working on MacBook Pro rev.3 (santa rosa) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/125915 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs