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[Alexander van Loon <a.vanloon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg

I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 and used an ATI Radeon HD4850 not too long ago. I
replaced the ATI video card with a NVIDIA GeForce 250 GTS, and noticed
that when I tried to start Ubuntu again that the X server wouldn't start
anymore. I was simply dumped to terminal. I had expected Ubuntu would
just start and that it would detect the new NVIDIA video card, and gave
me the option to install the drivers for it. For Windows that is no
problem, that will still start and allow me to download and install the
drivers.

I tried restarting Ubuntu and using the recovery mode, then tried xfix.
That didn't work. After searching the Internet a bit I figured out that
running EnvyNG would be the easiest way to fix the problem. So I did,
and EnvyNG removed fglrx and installed the appropriate NVIDIA driver.

Of course this is a serious failure of Ubuntu regarding it's ease of
use. It's easy to fix for advanced users, but a newbie would have no
idea. Hopefully this will be fixed.

** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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switching ati for nvidia without removing fglrx causes x to fail
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/401322
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