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[John Massy-Greene <jmassygreene@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

Hardware that I'm using:

Toshiba Qosmio X300 laptop
NVIDIA 9800M GTX
Core Duo 2.66
4 GB RAM
2 x 320 GB HDD's with Ubuntu 64 bit 8.10 installed on the second

What's happened?
I downgraded to 8.10 64 bit after not being able to get any nvidia drivers to work. I upgraded everything with synaptic and find that the sound only works on linux kernel 2.6.27-9-generic rather than the latest which is 2.6.27-14-generic.  

-  So I use the 2.6.27-9-generic kernel  
-  install 177.82 nvidia driver. It pops up with errors 
-  reinstall a few times and it works 
- compiz and firefox cause the computer to hang 
- hard reboot
- driver doesn't work anymore
- try to install 180.11, doesn't work. try to install 185, it doesn't work either
- find out 9800M GTX isn't supported by 177.82 (although why would it work??)
- so I go back to 180.11 nvidia driver
- comes up with error on startup : (EE) No devices detected
- also the command 

sudo grep -n "^(EE)" /var/log/Xorg*log

produces this:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log:1652:(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)
/var/log/Xorg.failsafe.log:1652:(EE) Failed to initialize GLX extension (Compatible NVIDIA X driver not found)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.4~5ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.27-9-generic (buildd@yellow) (gcc version 4.3.2 (Ubuntu 4.3.2-1ubuntu11) ) #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008

SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-9-generic x86_64
xkbcomp:

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


** Tags: apport-bug

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installation nvidia driver causes (EE) No devices detected
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/417638
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