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The Nouveau driver for NVIDIA cards does NOT function on NVIDIA GeForce
8200M cards (also does not apparently work on the 8300)

This makes Ubuntu inoperable for many computers (including my laptop)
because it simply cannot load. The only method of getting 10.04 and
latter options to install is to upgrade from 9.10 AFTER installing the
NVIDIA offical binary driver through Jockey.

A Linux guru I had look at my laptop told me Ubuntu was hard-coded to
call upon Nouveau at startup, disabiling Nouveau stopped the system from
loading entirely.

I would ask for an exception for the 8200 and 8300 during boot, if those
cards are detected the old generic driver is called instead of Nouveau
(thus allowing the user to install the NVIDIA binary driver should they
so wish)

Below is a bug report in which it is detailed, but I'm unsure if it'll be completed in time for 10.10
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18286

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Nouveau in Ubuntu does not work on NVIDIA GeForce 8200M
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/605414
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