Comment 9 for bug 585930

i extract some log lines from /var/log/syslog -- i think showing the main problem, that gdm fails about 2 secs **before** the nvidia module is loaded.
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Aug 31 21:43:22 sandra-nb kernel: [ 2.863035] EXT4-fs (sda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode
Aug 31 21:43:22 sandra-nb kernel: [ 18.001148] udev: starting version 151
Aug 31 21:43:22 sandra-nb kernel: [ 18.010245] Adding 2000052k swap on /dev/sda6. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2000052k
Aug 31 21:43:22 sandra-nb kernel: [ 18.109035] vga16fb: initializing
Aug 31 21:43:22 sandra-nb kernel: [ 18.109040] vga16fb: mapped to 0xffff8800000a0000
Aug 31 21:43:22 sandra-nb kernel: [ 18.109106] fb0: VGA16 VGA frame buffer device
Aug 31 21:43:22 sandra-nb kernel: [ 18.113579] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
Aug 31 21:43:22 sandra-nb kernel: [ 18.632373] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
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Aug 31 21:43:22 sandra-nb init: gdm main process (875) terminated with status 1
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Aug 31 21:43:24 sandra-nb kernel: [ 23.472888] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 195.36.24 Thu Apr 22 19:10:14 PDT 2010
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helpful link:
http://upstart.ubuntu.com/wiki/Debugging