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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  I just updated my Karmic system ( a late 2008 13" Macbook; aka version
  5,1 ) yesterday and a new version (185) restricted driver landed on my
  system.  After a restart, my system failed to start X, and I could only
  login from a command prompt.  See bug#418681 for the details.
  
  While debugging, I listed all of my nvidia packages and noticed that one
  had a ~jaunty version, mbp-nvidia-bl-dkms ( 0.22~jaunty ), which was
  installed from the mactel-support PPA ( lp:~mactel-support ).  So
  thinking it might be part of the problem I used 'dpkg -P' to forcibly
  remove it.   Note, nvidia-bl-dkm version 0.14 was still installed.  I
  continued debugging the problem ( see the bug reference above for
  details ), and I now have a usable system.
  
  That is, until I tried to fire up Twinview on my external Acer 26"
  monitor.  The monitor is connected via a mini Display Port to DVI cable
  to a DVI to HDMI cable.
  
  nvidia-settings recognizes the monitor, it allows me to configure as
  "Twinview", and when I hit the "Apply" button, I see the power button on
  the monitor transition from red to blue, but the screen never displays a
  thing.  No errors are shown by nvidia-settings.
  
  Note, I tried tp re-install the nvidia-bl driver from mactel-support,
  but that doesn't seem to make a difference.
  
  One last note, I've *never* been able to get this machine to work with a
  mini DisplayPort-to-VGA adapter.  I was only able to make the DVI
  version work.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Aug 27 11:31:08 2009
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBook5,1
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
  Package: nvidia-glx-185 185.18.36-0ubuntu1
  PccardctlIdent:
   
  PccardctlStatus:
   
  ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=0edc7e68-43e0-4c85-9ee5-3f87f5c76631 ro quiet splash  crashkernel=384M-2G:64M,2G-:128M
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-7.27-generic
  RelatedPackageVersions:
   xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
   libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu3
   libdrm2 2.4.12+git20090801.45078630-0ubuntu1
   xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu1
   xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu6
  SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-7-generic x86_64
  dmi.bios.date: 01/30/09
  dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.bios.version: MB51.88Z.007D.B00.0901301153
  dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
  dmi.board.name: Mac-F42D89A9
  dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.board.version: Proto
  dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
  dmi.chassis.type: 10
  dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
  dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F42D89A9
  dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMB51.88Z.007D.B00.0901301153:bd01/30/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBook5,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F42D89A9:rvrProto:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F42D89A9:
  dmi.product.name: MacBook5,1
  dmi.product.version: 1.0
  dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
  fglrx: Not loaded
  system:
   distro:             Ubuntu
   architecture:       x86_64kernel:             2.6.31-7-generic
+ 
+ [lspci]
+ 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400M] [10de:0863] (rev b1)
+     	Subsystem: Apple Computer Inc. Device [106b:00aa]

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[nvidia185] Acer External Monitor fails to display anything in "Twinview" mode
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/420008
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