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[james <610446@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Uhm - well, there is a work-around for this problem.  As has been
pointed-out elsewhere, effectively, if /etc/default/grub is modified so
that

 GRUB_TERMINAL=console

is un-commented, or instead, the kernel command line is modified to
include "vga=normal", as in

 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" <blah> vga=normal <blah> "

or, generally,

 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=" <blah> vga=[normal|ext|0x<some text mode>]
<blah> "

then the framebuffer console is not used, and the nvidia module will run
without a seg fault.

Something is still broken, with either Xorg or the nvidia module, but
you can get on with life, just without running high-res on the
framebuffer.

BTW, you cannot actually set the text-mode resolution with "vga=...".  I
seem to get 80x25 text mode regardless of what is set at "vga=0x???".  I
don't know if this is because of grub2 faults, or if intstead, these
text modes have been disabled in the newer kernels.  grub2 itself will
fail for "vga=ask".

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Xorg segmentation fault with Nvidia (ver. 96) driver
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