[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 429003] Re: [karmic] Xorg (and anything GLX) crashes on startup

2009-09-14 Thread mjbrooks
Sorry Alberto, I hope I wasn't giving the impression that I was recommending the driver from NVidia's website. I was just putting the information out there since some people were already mentioning it. In fact, I was trying to frame it as best I could as a you probably don't want to do this,

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 429003] Re: [karmic] Xorg (and anything GLX) crashes on startup

2009-09-13 Thread mjbrooks
If you're stuck with a black screen on boot because of this and can't seem to CTRL_ALT+F1 press ALT+PRINTSCREEN+R to release the keyboard from the Xserver. You can then hit CTRL+ALT+F1 to get a TTY If you just want to get around the issue you can use the NV driver by editing xorg.conf sudo nano

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 429160] Re: X server does not start with proprietary nvidia drivers enabled

2009-09-13 Thread mjbrooks
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 429003 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/429003 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 429003 [karmic] Xorg (and anything GLX) crashes on startup ** Changed in: ubuntu Status: New = Confirmed -- X server does not start with proprietary