"MaverickMeerkat/TechnicalOverview
Introduction
The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and
greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Maverick Meerkat
Release Candidate of Ubuntu 10.10, bringing with it new features for the next
version of U
Apologies for the patronising straw man lecture.
The facts are, according to "MaverickMeerkat/TechnicalOverview", Second
paragraph from the top:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MaverickMeerkat/TechnicalOverview
"This is a candidate for the release. Do not install it on production
machines. The final sta
Good to hear that you are sorted (for now). Could you post the info about
256.53 and GeForce GT 330M in the general Ubuntu Forum? It would be useful for
those with similar set-up to yours.
Maverick Meerkat is still (until 10 Oct) a beta so there are likely to
be some issues such as this. As not
This is probably not an appropriate place for this but...
Reformatting sounds a bit drastic.
Have you tried booting without xorg.conf file?
In many cases, Xserver can start without xorg.conf file.
1. At Grub, Cntrl_alt+F1 to enter the terminal.
2. Log in and goto /etc/X11/:cd /etc/X11/
3
As reported in:
Ubuntu “nvidia-graphics-drivers-173” package Bugs Bug #626918
"Nvidia 173 driver does not work with xserver 1.9 "
nvidia-graphics-drivers-173 (173.14.28-0ubuntu1) maverick
has now been released. I can confirm that it is now included in the most
recent set of updates for maverick.
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 626918 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626918
Thank you for your response.
Yes, the bug does appear to be a duplicate of 626918.
My comment with regard to this is that:
If the newer Nvidia -173 (173.14.28) is not ready for 10.10 launch, it
would minimis
173.14.28 does appear to work in my case with Maverick and Nvidia FX5700Ultra.
If the newer Nvidia -173 (173.14.28) is not ready for 10.10 launch, it
would minimise downtime and inconvenience for those with legacy Nvidia
cards (eg FX 5x00 series) if Nouveau could be substituted for
Nvidia-173 at
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: nvidia-173
Nvidia 173.14.27 crashes with Xserver 1.9 in Ubuntu maverick
(development branch) Release: 10.10.
This affects users:
1. of legacy Nvidia cards using 173 drivers when upgrading from 10.04 to
10.10 beta.
* 10.04 to 10.10 upgrade results i
** Also affects: xorg-server
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- Nvidia 173 driver dpes not work with Xorg Xserver 1.9
+ Nvidia 173 driver does not work with Xorg Xserver 1.9
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Nvidia 173 driver does not work with Xorg Xserver 1.9
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/6
I now have 173.14.28 running in Maverick, Xserver 1.9 with Geforce
FX5700 Ultra.
As noted in a post from Mytonn, the drivers are from
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2326225 .
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ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in
Maverick
https://bugs.lau
Ah! Apologies and Thanx.
626974 appears to be where its at.
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nVidia card : X won't start since 1.9 update, no screens found
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/616023
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which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu.
I believe the fix discussed above (256.53, released: 2010.08.31) only provides
a solution for only some of the users. Although it added support for
xorg-server video driver ABI version 8 / xorg-server-1.9, the driver does not
support legacy cards such as the Geforce 5 FX series.
The currently
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