Fail to start X (GDM?) in Ubuntu 8.10 (Interpid Ibex)

[Elygia]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nv

Short bug summary:

I have tried to install different distributives of "Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid Ibex" (Ubuntu Studio x64, Ubuntu Desktop x64, Ubuntu Desktop i386) and all of them do not start Xorg after I choose using nVidia appropriate driver to turn on Compiz.

My hardware:

Motherboard: WINFAST_6100K8MA (s939)
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
MEMORY: Dual channel 4x512 mb DDR PC 3200 (400 mhz)
VIDEO: nVidia GeForce 7300 GT (256 mb, PCI-E)

I have now Ubuntu Desktop 8.04, I use appropriate driver and I use Compiz, everything works fine.

[Elygia (perfik)]

One more point, monitor "Samsung SyncMaster 732n" is connected to VGA port

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug. Could you please run "sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci.log" and attach the resulting file "lspci.log" to this bug report?

Thanks

[Elygia (perfik)]

I also tried to connect my monitor to DVI port with the "DVI => VGA switcher", no effect

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks. Would you mind trying with the following line added to the Device section of your xorg.conf:

BusID "PCI:2:0:0"

Once you have done this, you will need to restart the X server (or just reboot)

[Elygia (perfik)]

Ok, as soon as I will try I will post here what happened

[Elygia (perfik)]

I have added this line and rebooted, the system booted normally, thanks, I think the bug is fixed, but why this should be done manually? Can you arrange to fix that problem during the first update of Ubuntu after the installation???

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thanks. The problem seems to occur because you have two video cards (onboard and PCI-E card), and is definately a bug. What you've done is only really a workaround, but I'm glad it's helped you.

This seems to be a duplicate of bug 267241, so I will mark it as such. Please feel free to report any other bugs you find.