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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  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:
+ 
+ [lspci]
+ 00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 07)
+     	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff00]
+ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:0617] (rev a2)
+     	Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff01]

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