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[apo <out.there@xxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

I'm using Kubuntu Karmic x64 with a nvidia 8400m.

The problem:

-i start my notebook
-short time after usplash disappeared, x tries to start but obviously does NOT use the driver specified in my xorg.conf.
 Therefore it crashes to low-graphics mode and gives me a few error and solution messages. (reconfigure your graphics etc)
-when i cancel them all in about 5 seconds, i'm thrown back to startuplog and x starts again (!) after a few secs with the right settings and therefore with my nvidia-glx-185 driver! everything works fine!
-when i'm too slow X won't start again on its own and i have to start it manually with "startx" or "sudo stop kdm" and "sudo start kdm" from tty (kdm seems to run, even after the crashed X server has closed)

I don't think this is driver related, cause X does not use the driver ( i do not see the nvidia SPLASH) when it fails. 
Imo X is started way too early in the progress of booting so that not everything is "ready" to get X up.

When a disk check is forced the boot progress is delayed for at least 5
minutes. When it continues to boot, X will start immediately into the
"right" instance and it will work. Therefore i really think it is
started too fast while normal booting.

logs enclosed

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

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x switches to low graphics at first try to start. second works!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/486702
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