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after thoroughly researching this for a couple of weeks, and trying
every suggestion possible ::

- checking /var/log and updating /etc/default/grub
- using current ppa (binary and source)
- using older nvidia drivers
- removing all display related drivers
- downloading and installing from nvidia
- clean install then one strategy or another
- purge drivers and re-install one or another strategy

after entirely too much pushing and pulling -- the only way to cleanly
boot into graphics mode is to use "vesa" driver in the xorg.conf (and
uncomment  'vesafb' in /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf ) {good luck..}

also try adding "nvidia" to /etc/modules  ..   without the entry in
/etc/modules, 'modprobe' shows it missing, even though  it is in fact
there, and dkms shows the module current, and there appear to be no
errors in kern.log or dmesg -  at various points X would complain that
there was no /dev/fb0 or just that there was an I/O error {no telling
what actually got this working somewhat}

any way to slice it, X will not load the driver..

it would be helpful if the installer could report on the device status
or at least have an option to check all of the critical areas to see if
things have loaded correctly and then produce a report showing all of
the relevant details..

of course, downgrading/clean-installing to 10.04 did not work either -
none of the graphics modes worked on this particular machine.. (a 64bit
AMD with G92  / 9800GT )

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/777493

Title:
  nvidia drivers activated but not in use on natty 11.04