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nvidia-graphics-drivers-96 package

  1. Bug #251107
  2. Comment #220

Comment 220 for bug 251107

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dyl_yati (dnb.yati) wrote :

Did the exact same thing with my parents Xubuntu, which has the old nvidia RIVA TNT2 Model 64 (which also uses the same nvidia 71 driver thingy).
installed, rebooted and so started X...
only to get failsafe window
I too got this message at the end of the xorg log
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: AllocateScreenPrivateIndex
(EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//nvidia_drv.so
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (loader failed, 7)
(EE) No drivers available.