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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

  1. Bug #196215
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 196215

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Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton) wrote :

Safe mode means that it's using the vesa driver, which should always work. Do you have hardy installed? You could at least test the HWCursor option with it, and if you are using the proprietary driver make sure to comment out the line that says 'Driver "nvidia"' (ie. add '#' to the beginning of the line), and run some commands to restart X:

/etc/init.d/gdm stop
rmmod nvidia
/etc/init.d/gdm start

There are several bugs upstream about corrupt graphics, and disabling the hwcursor seems to help in some cases. We could disable it by default but first we need some confirmation that it really helps our users.

The new package could help the resolution issue. PPA stands for "personal package archive", and you can just add that line to your /etc/apt/sources.list and run 'apt-get update; apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-nv' to get my version of the package. You can then remove the repository from the sources.list.