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[Karmic] Installing Nvidia driver doesn't start X (Alpha 3)

Bug #411867 reported by Carroarmato0
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Bug Description

After rebooting the system when the proprietary Nvidia driver has been installed, X starts but doesn't display anything.

Please notice that using the vga driver, there isn't any xorg.conf configuration file in /etc/X11/ (not sure if that's normal)

Linux 2.6.31-5-generic #24-Ubuntu SMP Sat Aug 1 12:48:18 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600M GT] (rev a1)

I'm going to reinstall Karmic Alpha 3, reinstall the Nvidia driver and add some logs.

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Carroarmato0 (carroarmato0) wrote :

Right after installing the Nvidia driver and before rebooting, the installation created an xorg.conf file with only this in it's content:

Section "Screen"
 Identifier "Default Screen"
 DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "Module"
 Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
 Identifier "Default Device"
 Driver "nvidia"
 Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

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Carroarmato0 (carroarmato0) wrote :

As a comparison, this is the xorg.conf file in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 on the same exact machine with the Nvidia driver installed (and working).

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Carroarmato0 (carroarmato0) wrote :

Wth? Somehow the Nvidia driver seems to work correctly this time after the second time I reinstalled Alpha 3... Seem like this bug report isn't needed anymore.

Changed in ubuntu:
status: New → Invalid
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