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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

  1. Bug #385658
  2. Comment #17

Comment 17 for bug 385658

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote : Re: [Bug 385658] Re: Karmic doesn't boot up on Studio XPS 1340 with Nvidia Hybrid graphics

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 07:31:16PM -0000, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> Bryce: the server is working right; it first tried the driver recognized
> by the vendor id, and if it doesn't support it, falls back to using the
> platform fallback driver and then as a last resort, fbdev. In this case
> though it seems that the fallback just fails for some reason :)

Ah okay, well then the question seems to be, why is the fallback
failing? (But from the Xorg.0.log it appears to be giving up right when
-nv fails, and not trying -vesa.)