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["M.Letcher" <m.letcher@xxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

Hi folks,

Just thought I'd see if I could get some help. I haven't had any success
in getting Ubuntu to recognize my Nvidia 8800GT card for about a year
now. Now I have jumped through some hoops, searched the net, the forums,
etc. I've even occasionally tried installing the Nvidia linux-32 bit
drivers directly. And no joy. I always get a msg telling me that X is
unable to initialize since it can not  init my device at PCI:1:0:0 which
is where the card lives. I've almost given up.

So, today as I updated my virtualbox Ubuntu and installed the guest-
additions, low and behold glx-gears ran like a charm. I haven't been
able to do this natively in about a year now. I've submitted earlier bug
reports with the requisite logs, but just wanted to report that
installing the nvidia-current pkg isn't working for me. I've got a
pretty vanilla system that's a couple years old and actually did a clean
install of 10.04 which gets updated every month. But if I can't get the
graphics card ID'ed I don't see much point dl'ing Studio again.

Any help appreciated. Its really odd to me.

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

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Nvidia.common drvr fails with unable to init device
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/654881
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