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xserver-xorg-video-nv package

  1. Bug #96833
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 96833

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Taz (taz-northernbloke) wrote :

I had the same problem. I installed Feisty Beta, yesterday, 27 March 2007 and all worked fine. Then I applied the updates (92 at the time) and rebooted. When gdm should have started I just got a blank screen.

I have the nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200. I checked my version...

# dpkg -l xserver-xorg-video-nv
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii xserver-xorg-video-nv 2.0.0-0ubuntu2 X.Org X server -- NV display driver

I tried an apt-get update at 08:40 CUT today, 28 March 2008. However, xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3 still hadn't hit the mirrors. So I got it from the URL above...

# wget http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton/xorg72/new/xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
--09:43:53-- http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton/xorg72/new/xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
           => `xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb'
Resolving users.tkk.fi... 130.233.240.8
Connecting to users.tkk.fi|130.233.240.8|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 74,642 (73K) [text/plain]

100%[======================================================================>] 74,642 344.01K/s

09:43:54 (343.82 KB/s) - `xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb' saved [74642/74642]

... and installed it...

# sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 103796 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.0.0-0ubuntu2 (using xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-video-nv ...
Setting up xserver-xorg-video-nv (2.0.0-0ubuntu3) ...

Rebooted and all works fine.

Thanks ever so much for your hard work last night. I got frustrated and just hoped that a better man than myself would have the answer by the morning.... and they did!

Thanks.