X server does not start with proprietary nvidia drivers enabled
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ubuntu |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Description: Ubuntu karmic (development branch)
Release: 9.10
x86 architecture
The X server fails to start with proprietary nvidia drivers (185, as recommended by the Hardware Drivers utility).
To work around this, I had to change my driver in xorg.conf to "nv" and uninstall nvidia-*. I don't think that removing nvidia-* was necessary, but it seemed to silence some crash reports I was getting from glxinfo.
This worked until recently. I'm inclined to blame a recent upgrade, but I can't find anything likely in dpkg.log. My system is up to date currently.
Xorg.log and backtrace will follow as soon as I can figure out how to properly switch between "nv" and "nvidia" drivers from the console, preferably without rebooting. I'm convinced that modifying xorg.conf isn't good enough.
| Noel J. Bergman (noeljb) wrote | #1 |
| Vincent Povirk (madewokherd) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in ubuntu: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
Which nvidia driver, which GPU, etc.?