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[Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I couldn't see this anywhere else reported, so here it goes:

I'm unable to start X11 on this MacBookPro [0] with a current Karmic
installation. I did not succeed with Jaunty either, so I moved on to
Karmic. IIRC xorg is using the proprietary "nvidia" driver as a default.
The driver has been compiled via DKMS and gets loaded too - I can see
the Nvidia splash logo when X11 tries to start. After that the screen
goes black - and I cannot zap it via ALT-Backspace. I have to login from
another machine an kill the X process. Unfortunately the Xorg.log just
stops logging at one point, no errors (EE) are reported.

Then I did "X -configure" to generate a new xorg.conf - used that, same
result. Then I changed to driver to "nv", but X11 wouldn't start and
this time Xorg.log is very descriptive - the nv driver does not
support[1] the on-board GeForce 9400M card.

So, X does not even fall into this failack mode, it just is unable to
start, at all. And I'm a bit lost on how to debug this. Also, I don't
really want to use the "nvidia" driver and would prefer the "nv" one -
but if "nvidia" is the only possibility to get this running, so be it.

Thanks,
Christian.

[0] http://support.apple.com/kb/SP541
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/261977

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

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no X11 with MBP and GeForce 9400M
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/414259
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