What binary drivers do you have and where did you get them from and what version are they? Give us the output of lspci -v. as in the line containing your type of video card.
I downloaded this directly from the nvidia site. NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.09-pkg2.run
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 7100 GS (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: XFX Pine Group Inc. Unknown device 2234 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 9 Memory at f8000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Memory at f9000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] [virtual] Expansion ROM at fa000000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2 Capabilities: [68] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable- Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint IRQ 0 Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting
Jerry