Comment 30 for bug 173418

I have the same problem. When I reboot, x server tries 3 times to start and then it switches to safe graphics mode (vesa, 800x600). When I hit "test" and manually select "nv" driver, it really works in test. However, when I continue, it somehow switches back to vesa.

If I configure xorg.conf to use "nv" and reboot, it works. But of course hardware acceleration don't work. So I suppose this problem to be related to nvidia driver.

Before today, I could overcome the unfortunate situation with switching to console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), turning GDM of (sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop) and then running nvidia binary installer (sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-169.12-pkg1.run) and clicking "yes" to everything. After that, starting gdm did the trick (sudo gdm start), and hardware acceleration worked well. BUT, not anymore :(

I have tried to install every restricted/backport etc. package I can found for the kernel image, but no luck this far. (By doing this, I got my SB Audigy working)

(I have too upgraded from Gutsy.)

lspci -nn |grep VGA

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7300 GT] [10de:0393] (rev a1)