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Public bug reported:

I installed a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 and installed the proprietary driver (nvidia-current) suggested by the system.
Upon reboot it fails while starting GDM, leaving me with a blinking cursor in tty7.

I'm able to jump to tty1 and log in.
The cause is that installing said driver (naturally) changes the driver in xorg.conf to "nvidia", as should.
But since this module fails, X fails and GDM fails.

The relevant lines from dmesg are:

[  392.594219] NVRM: failed to copy vbios to system memory.
[  392.596521] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffffffff:820)
[  392.596542] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed

In my xorg logs I'm seeing:
[    22.911] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[    22.911] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
[    22.912] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[    22.912]    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
[    22.912]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
 ...
[    22.915] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
[    22.915] (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
[    22.915] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[    22.915] (II) Failed to load module "nvidia" (already loaded, 5386953)
[    22.916] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  260.19.06  Mon Sep 13 04:31:43 PDT 2010
[    22.916] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[    22.916] (--) using VT number 8
 ...
[    22.931] (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
[    22.931] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[    22.931] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[    22.931] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[    22.931] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo" "True"
[    22.931] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 640x480 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0"
[    22.932] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
[    22.932] (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
[    22.932] (II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
[    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:5:0:0.
[    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please check your system's kernel log for additional error
[    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common Problems in the
[    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
[    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
[    22.943] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
[    22.943] (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
[    22.943] (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
[    22.943] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
[    22.943] Fatal server error:
[    22.943] no screens found

To patch it up I simply use "Intel" as a fall back driver on the first 'device' in the xorg.conf.
Doing so I'm able to start X and GDM.

I've tried installing both Ubuntu's and Nvidia's own drivers (256 and
260).

I've reproduced this on two fresh installs of 10.10 on the same machine,
and many times over on the latest install.

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

** Description changed:

  I installed a fresh Ubuntu 10.10 and installed the proprietary driver (nvidia-current) suggested by the system.
  Upon reboot it fails while starting GDM, leaving me with a blinking cursor in tty7.
  
  I'm able to jump to tty1 and log in.
  The cause is that installing said driver (naturally) changes the driver in xorg.conf to "nvidia", as should.
  But since this module fails, X fails and GDM fails.
  
  The relevant lines from dmesg are:
  
  [  392.594219] NVRM: failed to copy vbios to system memory.
  [  392.596521] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x30:0xffffffff:820)
  [  392.596542] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
  
  In my xorg logs I'm seeing:
  [    22.911] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
  [    22.911] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
  [    22.912] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
  [    22.912]    compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
  [    22.912]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
-  ...
+  ...
  [    22.915] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
  [    22.915] (II) Reloading /usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules/nvidia_drv.so
  [    22.915] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
  [    22.915] (II) Failed to load module "nvidia" (already loaded, 5386953)
  [    22.916] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  260.19.06  Mon Sep 13 04:31:43 PDT 2010
  [    22.916] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
  [    22.916] (--) using VT number 8
-  ...
+  ...
  [    22.931] (==) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (==) framebuffer bpp 32
  [    22.931] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
  [    22.931] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
  [    22.931] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
  [    22.931] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "NoLogo" "True"
  [    22.931] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0; 640x480 +0+0; 1024x768 +0+0; 800x600 +0+0"
  [    22.932] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling RENDER acceleration
  [    22.932] (II) NVIDIA(0): Support for GLX with the Damage and Composite X extensions is
  [    22.932] (II) NVIDIA(0):     enabled.
- [    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:5:0:0. 
+ [    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:5:0:0.
  [    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     Please check your system's kernel log for additional error
  [    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     messages and refer to Chapter 8: Common Problems in the
  [    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0):     README for additional information.
  [    22.943] (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device!
  [    22.943] (II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
  [    22.943] (II) UnloadModule: "wfb"
  [    22.943] (II) UnloadModule: "fb"
  [    22.943] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
  [    22.943] Fatal server error:
  [    22.943] no screens found
  
- 
  To patch it up I simply use "Intel" as a fall back driver on the first 'device' in the xorg.conf.
  Doing so I'm able to start X and GDM.
  
  I've tried installing both Ubuntu's and Nvidia's own drivers (256 and
  260).
  
  I've reproduced this on two fresh installs of 10.10 on the same machine,
  and many times over on the latest install.

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Nvidia proprietary driver unable to initialize
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/669253
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