I was just trying the new version of Linux Mint in my new machine with built in nVidia card. I put the CD and configured my BIOS to boot from the CD. It showed the Linux Mint welcome page and then the Boot splash screen. But it disappointed me when it came to the login screen. My monitor just shows that “Out of range”.I got the same problem with Ubuntu 7.10. This version of Linux Mint was based on that Ubuntu release but i thought that they may have removed this bug, but that was there.

So i mounted the ubuntu 7.04 / partition which was already installed in my system. They i compared the /etc/X11/xorg.conf of both distro and found that there was some difference in the horizontal and vertical synchronization value of monitor also the resolution option was not there in Linux Mint X configuration, so i edited the file and updated/added some values like below :

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Section “Monitor”
Identifier “Generic Monitor”
Option “DPMS”
HorizSync 28-51
VertRefresh 43-60
EndSection

Section “Screen”
Identifier “Default Screen”
Device “Generic Video Card”
Monitor “Generic Monitor”
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection “Display”
Depth 24
Modes “1024×768″ “800×600″ “640×480″
EndSubSection
EndSection
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Also i booted the live cd with nosplash noapic noacpi — option

1. Boot from the CD.

2. Press F6 at the welcome screen replace the option “quiet splash –” with “nosplash noapic noacpi –”

3. Press “Enter” to boot

4. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 and go to terminal and then switch to root using “sudo su”.

5. Open the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and add/update the file ( the section that i marked as bold in the above example. )

Then go to the graphical screen by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F7 then force logout the mint user by pressing Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace. Then wait for some seconds to autologin the mint user. I got fixed My issue, hope this will help you also, Just try

Reference :

http://www.linuxmint.com/

http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_daryna.php