karmic - X starts but before ending the process it dies

[Aldo Maggi]

after the boot gdm doesn't start, i launch Xorg by startx which starts gnome, panels appear with the default icons and suddenly dies.
i'm brought back to the vc and can read the following:
(EE) open /dev/fb0: no such file or dir

waiting for xserver to shut down error setting mtrr (base=0x0000000, size=0x04000000, type=1) invalid argument(22)
ddxsiggiveup: closing log

lspci |grep -i vga = VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV11 [GeForce2 MX/MX 400]
(rev b2)

thanks

aldo

[Aldo Maggi (sentiniate)]

the bug seems to show up installing with the alternate cd only.
i've reinstalled alpha6 using the normal desktop cd and xorg starts without problems

thanks
aldo

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thank you for reporting this issue about xserver-xorg-video-nv. Starting
with Lucid, Ubuntu is transitioning to using the -nouveau video driver
by default instead of -nv. The reason for this change is because
upstream development for the -nv driver has been quite slow. We are
quite pleased with the upstream development speed for -nouveau, and hope
this will translate into swifter bug fixes as well.

Because of this, I'm closing this bug report at this time. I'm marking
it wontfix because what you describe is probably a valid issue, but we
do not have further plans to work on it in Ubuntu. If you would still like
to see this issue investigated, I would encourage you to file it
upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.