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[Joseph Miller <josephcmiller2@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had a similar problem.  I had nvidia driver installed before 9.10
update using nvidia's installer (not Ubunut).  I then updated via
alternate CDROM.  xorg failed to start, and did not even give me an
option for low graphics mode.  The first Xorg error that I received was
that the module nvidia failed to load, which I can understand.  I
changed this to the nv driver, Xorg log attached.

[lspci]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [nForce 780a SLI] (rev a2)

This is GeForce 8200

The *bug* part of this is that I didn't even have an option to start in
low graphics mode.  I realize that my setup was probably invalid.  But I
was left hanging with a terminal.  Now I have been using Ubuntu for some
time and Linux for at least 10 years.  I am not a novice, but I can't be
expected to know everything there is to know about xorg (especially
since development can change rapidly).  I did happen to find
Xorg.conf.failsafe in /etc/X11, but how was I supposed to know that it
was there?

** Attachment added: "Xorg.log"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35031754/Xorg.log

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ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala fails to switch to graphic mode on startup
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