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[victorb <vbourachot@xxxxxxxxx>]

Same thing here using 09/09/09 liveCD or alpha5 with a nvidia 9400M in a
dell studio 14z.

X fails to start as the video card is not recognized and I end up on a tty login prompt.
My Xorg log looks just the same as David's:
   [...]
   II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
   [....]
   (WW) NV: Ignoring unsupported device 0x10de0866 (C79 [GeForce 9400M G]) at 02@00:00:0

Note: Workaround using alternate CD to perform install then install
nvidia-glx-185 drivers, ubuntu boots just fine.

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[nv9400gm] X fails to start on MacBook 5,2
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/422463
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Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in X.Org X server: In Progress
Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nv” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed

Bug description:
Booting from the latest daily liveCD of karmic fails on a MacBook 5,2. Everything loads fine except for the graphical environment, which crashed saying it can't find any displays.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep  1 09:53:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20090901)
Package: ubiquity 1.99.13
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic x86_64



[lspci]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M G] [10de:0866] (rev b1)
    	Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00b1]