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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #625239
  2. Comment #131

Comment 131 for bug 625239

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Seth (bugs-sehe) wrote : Re: [Bug 625239] Re: X starts on wrong tty because gdm starts before nvidia driver is ready

On 09/14/2010 05:09 PM, Jamie Krug wrote:
> Steve,
>
>
>> You might also be able to confirm this is the problem by commenting out
>> the "graphics-device-added fb0" part of the start condition.
>>
> Okay, testing with standard disto version of /etc/default/grub and the
> following in my /etc/init/gdm.conf:
>
> start on (filesystem
> and started dbus
> and (drm-device-added card0 PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY=1
> or stopped udevtrigger))
> stop on runlevel [016]
>
> Boot seemed to be fairly quick and I did NOT notice the flicker I used
> to see after the splash screen. It was a pretty smooth transition to the
> GDM login screen, and I'm on tty7. I've also been working for 40 minutes
> now without a crash, which seems promising. Are there any logs you'd
> like me to report with this configuration/boot?
>
>
 So let me get this straight, you just removed the "graphics-device-added
fb0 PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY=1" disjunction?
I might try that too. This could be brittle, because all this could do
is reduce the time window for the race condition to happen. I will
however give that a shot so I can confirm whether it would help at my
system too.

Seth