Starting X with nvidia driver results in system lockup

[John Nilsson]

Since I upgraded to Breezy each try to start X with the nvidia driver results in
a system lockup.

[John Nilsson (john-milsson)]

Created an attachment (id=4206)
output of hwdb -a

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Understand that because of the proprietary nature of this driver, there is
nothing we can do about this other than to help you get in contact with nVidia.
 The document /usr/share/doc/nvidia-glx/README.txt.gz explains how to do this.

[John Nilsson (john-milsson)]

As it was working perfectly with Hoary I was thinking that something had changed
in Ubuntu that made it breake. In any case it, if more users than I have this
problem it has to be resolved before the relase.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> As it was working perfectly with Hoary I was thinking that something had changed
> in Ubuntu that made it breake. In any case it, if more users than I have this
> problem it has to be resolved before the relase.

Things have changed in Ubuntu, including this driver. However, we are not
allowed access to its source code by nVidia, and so we cannot help you to
diagnose the problem. Only nVidia can.

[John Nilsson (john-milsson)]

I got it working eventually. See this link for mor information:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=73032

I'm almost positively sure that my system had a hard lock. Based on the fact
that even sshd stoped responding after trying to start X.

Other people seems to have more trouble with the driver not picking correct
timings via EDID.
The combo DVI + high resoultion DFP + nvidia driver seems to trigger the bug.

[Daniel Stone (daniels)]

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 13530.