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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #661248
  2. Comment #50

Comment 50 for bug 661248

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Aaron Plattner (aplattner) wrote : Re: Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT doesn't work with nvidia-current 260

Thanks, Joakim. On the contrary, that's quite interesting. The first four bytes should never be all 0xff if the GPU is configured correctly by the kernel. If the kernel has misconfigured the GPU in such a way that it cannot respond to register reads, the driver has no hope of working.