Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers package

natty doesn't fall back to open source drivers if nvidia proprietary drivers are corrupted

Bug #739707 reported by Tin Tvrtkovic on 2011-03-21

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #522061: Nvidia proprietary drivers fallback test failed: do not hardcode "Driver=nvidia" in xorg.conf. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)	Triaged	High	Unassigned

System doesn't fall back to open source/vesa drivers in case nvidia.ko is removed. Boot up fails, including fail-safe X.

Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) on 2011-03-22

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → High
status:	New → Triaged

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Ramón Rocha (ramon.rocha) wrote on 2011-04-01:

I don't think this is the same bug as #522061. I get stuck at the ubuntu logo bootup-screen instead of a black screen.

Tin, how about you?

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Tin Tvrtkovic (tinchester) wrote on 2011-04-02:

This issue is resolved for me in the latest builds, so I guess this really was a duplicate of #522061.

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