Nvidia.common drvr fails with unable to init device
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Hi folks,
Just thought I'd see if I could get some help. I haven't had any success in getting Ubuntu to recognize my Nvidia 8800GT card for about a year now. Now I have jumped through some hoops, searched the net, the forums, etc. I've even occasionally tried installing the Nvidia linux-32 bit drivers directly. And no joy. I always get a msg telling me that X is unable to initialize since it can not init my device at PCI:1:0:0 which is where the card lives. I've almost given up.
So, today as I updated my virtualbox Ubuntu and installed the guest-additions, low and behold glx-gears ran like a charm. I haven't been able to do this natively in about a year now. I've submitted earlier bug reports with the requisite logs, but just wanted to report that installing the nvidia-current pkg isn't working for me. I've got a pretty vanilla system that's a couple years old and actually did a clean install of 10.04 which gets updated every month. But if I can't get the graphics card ID'ed I don't see much point dl'ing Studio again.
Any help appreciated. Its really odd to me.
