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[Christian Kujau <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  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.
+ I'm unable to start X11 on this (13", Mid-2009) 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

** Description changed:

  I couldn't see this anywhere else reported, so here it goes:
  
  I'm unable to start X11 on this (13", Mid-2009) 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.
  
+ When changing xorg.conf to use the "vesa" driver, X11 hangs as well,
+ show just a few color fragments on top of the screen and cannot be
+ zapped either. This is how it looks with "vesa":
+ http://nerdbynature.de/bits/414259/xorg_vesa.jpg
+ 
  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

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