X w/ "nvidia" fails to start on Geforce 8800 GTS
Bug #138319 reported by
Michael DePaulo
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
System:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-965P-S3
Graphics: Foxconn Geforce 8800 GTS
Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 204B (DVI)
Ubuntu Gutsy AMD64 from approximately 9/5 through 9/8
Description:
X fails to start when using the "nvidia" driver, whether from nvidia-glx or nvidia-glx-new. I've tried replacing "vesa" in the default xorg.conf with "nvidia" and I've tried using the restricted drivers manager to enable the driver. Either way I get the message in the console when I enter startx:
NVIDIA: could not open the device file /dev/nvidia0 (input/output error)
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Michael: /help.ubuntu. com/community/ BinaryDriverHow to/Nvidia ). In theory nvidia-glx-new should work but you may be running into a known issue. Can you please attach the your
There's not quite enough information here to diagnose your problem. nvidia-glx (which corresponds to the 96xx drivers) will not work with your card (due to your cards newness - see https:/
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
file that is produced directly after using the nvidia-glx-new driver (you may need to reboot to ensure you are using this 100 series driver) with nvidia in your xorg.conf?