Screen shuts off when using proprietary NVidia drivers

Screen shuts off when using proprietary NVidia drivers

pAs soon as I install the proprietary NVidia driver on my laptop (even
after a fresh Kubuntu install), I start to experience random screen
failures, that is, the screen suddenly shuts off, the backlight is still
on, but the display is black, and trying to switch tty changes nothing./p
pHaving skimmed through Xorg.log, I couldn't find any error or warning
that could be related (but then, I am no expert), but there are some 200
NULL (^@) chars at the end, and I don't know if it is normal./p pI have no
such problem when using nouveau, so I suspect it is a driver issue, not a
physical one./p pI am using nvidia-current (so 304.88, but the issue
occurs with every driver available in jockey, that is another 304 and two
319) on Kubuntu Saucy (but the issue occurs on Raring too) with a GeForce
8800M GTX./p pWhat should I do to make the proprietary drivers work?/p