Installing nvidia kills xorg on non-nvidia systems, or makes display upside down
Bug #496363 reported by
Martin Owens
This bug affects 21 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ltsp (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Lucid |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
|
Alberto Milone | ||
Lucid |
Won't Fix
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Wishlist
|
Alberto Milone |
Bug Description
On a system where i was moving hard drives from one machine to another, I noticed that the second machine would not boot successfully because the first had an nvidia driver which was loaded for it's operation.
This presents a problem, because if the nvidia package could be accidentally installed, then people could end up with non working systems.
Removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf fixed the problem.
For more info and ways to work around this problem, see:
https:/
description: | updated |
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
status: | Triaged → Won't Fix |
summary: |
- Installing nvidia kills xorg on non-nvidia systems + Installing nvidia kills xorg on non-nvidia systems, or makes display + upside down |
tags: | added: css-sponsored-p |
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Yeah the issue is most likely that you had "nvidia" configured in your xorg.conf, but the new hardware I assume was non-nvidia (or at least a video chip not supported by whatever nvidia driver you had installed).
Sort of a hard issue to solve or work around, but one we've known about. There are several ways this situation could be avoided. 1) Make it unnecessary to specify "nvidia" in xorg.conf by automatically detecting it in xserver (see xserver patches 104/105). 2) Have functionality in the xserver to somehow detect when the hardware has changed and inform the user. 3) Drop the system into failsafe-x in this situation with guidance to enable the proper driver for the new hardware.
All three of these options are identified as tasks in https:/ /blueprints. edge.launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +spec/desktop- lucid-xorg- proprietary- drivers but are currently set to POSTPONED.