Comment 31 for bug 616394
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| tonsil (tanselc2008-deactivatedaccount) wrote Re: [Bug 616394] Re: dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so: undefined symbol: miEmptyData | #31 |
If it's of any help, when I had upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 in its
first beta release, I found that deleting the xorg.conf allowed me to
login in low graphics mode. I wouldn't know if it's still the case,
however, but perhaps it's worth trying.
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 13:31 +0000, David Wynn wrote:
> This has actually happened frequently in the past -- that the legacy
> nvidia drivers get abandoned for a time. Previously, the problem had
> always eventually gotten fixed. However, this is something that we
> should warn people about. At least in my experience, using the
> nvidia-96 drivers in Maverick will not allow you any graphic
> capabilities. You will be dropped to a command line, but will not be
> given a chance to switch to lower graphic capabilities, as in previous
> versions of Ubuntu. (In Lucid and some previous releases, when nvidia
> was not working, it would ask to use low-graphics mode. This does not
> happen in Maverick, even though I have nv and nouveau installed)
>