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Hi,

I can run Ubuntu 10.04 just fine as long as I have my hardware drivers
disabled, but when I enable my hardware drivers I get an error before
the GDM login screen that says something to the effect of it being
unable to load the NVIDIA Kernel

I'm then given the choice of booting into low-graphics mode, configuring
xorg for this hardware, troubleshooting, dropping to console, or
restarting X.

Booting to low-graphics mode does nothing useful, just boots to low gfx
mode.

Configuring xorg for this hardware does nothing at all - same errors
after trying every single option in the configuring xorg section

Troubleshooting is equally useless to me - I can't copy and paste the
very-long error reports, I'm not an xorg pro so editing the xorg conf
doesn't help me, and when I tried following the option to export all my
config and error logs, it said that it has exported it to
$xorg_backup_file - but that's just a variable not a file.. after a
reboot I can't find this anywhere.

I've googled this and the only useful info I've found is to run nvidia-
xconfig as root, which I've done and it has zero effect.

The only temporary solution is to disable the nvidia driver, which lets
me boot normally using metacity at full resolution, but has no
accelerated 3d or composite overlay so I'm unable to run compiz or have
any nifty 3d.

Is there anyone out there who has the skills to help me out here?

Details:
Vid card: NVIDIA G96 (according to lspci)
Driver: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended]
OS: Ubuntu 10.04

** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Incomplete

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NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver fails in 10.04
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/581033
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