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Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: xorg

I have tried NVIDIA drivers 173, 180 and 185 for my Alienware M17 laptop
with NVIDIA C79 [GeForce 9400M G] card. After GRUB and the splash, I get
a completely black screen (no cursor). I can get to TTY but GUI is fully
crashed, 'startx' fails.

Seems similar to an NVIDIA SLI issue I had on a desktop some time ago
where I needed to manually edit the xorg.conf to get that one working.
The difference is that with the desktop issue I had a blinking cursor,
now it is a fully blank screen?

I would love to be able to show off Ubuntu 9.10 on this amazing laptop
but it is not very impressive with embedded graphics.

Thanks in advance for your help!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: e84eb83f228186fd6a9b5f24960548f0
CheckboxSystem: 5f30ac82cc48ed91bb5240b61cb4e295
Date: Wed Nov  4 17:13:01 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
MachineType: Alienware M17x
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=fd269f50-348b-4ed6-affa-9067a152568c ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
dmi.bios.date: 07/30/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Alienware
dmi.bios.version: A01
dmi.board.vendor: Alienware
dmi.board.version: A01
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Alienware
dmi.chassis.version: A01
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAlienware:bvrA01:bd07/30/2009:svnAlienware:pnM17x:pvrA0123:rvnAlienware:rn:rvrA01:cvnAlienware:ct8:cvrA01:
dmi.product.name: M17x
dmi.product.version: A0123
dmi.sys.vendor: Alienware
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro:             Ubuntu
 architecture:       x86_64kernel:             2.6.31-14-generic
xkbcomp:
 Error: command ['xkbcomp', ':0', '-w0', '-'] failed with exit code 1: Error:            Cannot open display ":0"
                   Exiting

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


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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Alienware M17 with NVIDIA GeForce 9400M G crashes gui on reboot with 173, 180, and 185 drivers.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/474880
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