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[mutineer612 <626974@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I recently upgraded from 10.4 to 10.10 x64 and found out the hard way
that 10.10 has issues with nVidia GeForce8400 due to newer version of
Xorg 1.9. I had the nVidia driver 'current' working with my nVidia
GeForce 8400 when I performed the upgrade from 10.4, and after rebooting
found that the system booted to a purple background image with no login
prompt. I tried booting into recovery mode by holding shift while
booting and disabling the nVidia driver and rebooting.

Now with the driver removed the system boots to purple background screen
with the ubuntu status indicators (dots) and makes the drum sound
normally followed by the login prompt, but I'm unable to see it and none
of the function keys work to drop to a console. However if I perform the
reboot again with the drivers removed I'm able to hold down the shift
key while booting and enter recovery mode again and then select safe
graphics mode to access the system, and this seems to work ok, but I
cannot get the system to boot without performing these manual steps.

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ABI change in xorg 1.9 breaks legacy nvidia-96 and nvidia-173 drivers in Maverick
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/626974
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