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kdebase-workspace package

  1. Bug #459639
  2. Comment #52

Comment 52 for bug 459639

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Rolf Bensch (rolfbensch) wrote : Re: [Karmic] X server starts randomly in failsafe when starting from cold boot

I found the reason for this problem. The kernel initialises the framebuffer /dev/fb0 device with the vesa driver (vga16fb) before it starts loading the nvidia driver. You can see this in the attached syslog file.