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  1. Bug #267241
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 267241

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M.Letcher (m-letcher) wrote : Re: [intrepid] X11: no device detected

I've been having problems with Intrepid initializing my NVidia-8800-GT. System has a single graphics card with 2 monitors. I realized I had problems after initial clean install last weekend, so I re-installed from liveCD. Used Sys/Admin/HW_Drivers to install 177. No errors reported, but driver doesn't activate on re-boot. The drivers appear to get loaded OK, but then the device which is at PCI:1:0:0 doesn't get initialized. I had similar problems with 173 though didn't collect the log files. Following this my monitors are no longer recognized even after asking 'Monitor Resolution Settings' to re-detect the monitors. Sysinfo also recognizes the card by name but doesn't report a GPU freq or RAM.

NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 177.80 Wed Oct 1 14:38:10 PDT 2008
Intrepid Kernel is 2.6.27-7-generic
Xorg Version: unknown (24 October 2008 08:00:16AM) - basic install of Intrepid

lspci
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8800 GT (rev a2)

Here's where it dies from the attached error file.
(**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
(II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
(II) NVIDIA(0): enabled.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:1:0:0.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Please see the COMMON PROBLEMS section in the README for
(EE) NVIDIA(0): additional information.
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
(II) UnloadModule: "fb"

Any suggestions appreciated. I'll fool with it for a week removing all the nv-177 stuff. I'm still looking about for the README above.