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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #561049
  2. Comment #49

Comment 49 for bug 561049

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bcrowell (launchpadcrowell07) wrote :

Okay, here's what I found.

When I boot into recovery mode, the nvidia module is already loaded, but the device nodes don't exist. I then unload and reload the nvidia module. Nothing special happens, except for the warning "WARNING: Could not find old name in /lib/modules/2.6.32-19-generic/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko to replace!" Then I start x. After I start x, the device nodes have been created. I used the attached shell script to automate the process. Out of 36 boots, the results were:

31 successful starts of X
2 cases where I never got a shell prompt
2 cases where X failed to start, but I wasn't set up to do the logging
1 case where I think I got the necessary information. Not completely sure about this one, however, because it was one of my first attempts. I was still messing around with the perl script, and I wasn't paying close enough attention to what was happening.

In all cases, I was doing warm reboots.

I will post a log from a case where X worked, and the one where it failed.