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[Yann Sionneau <yann.sionneau@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Yasaswi Lakkaraju,

Yasaswi Lakkaraju a écrit :
> hi all,
>          I am newbie to Linux testing, so kinda need help figuring out
> things here.
>  
> 1) In the first test case xpr-001[2]: I cannot find the xorg.conf at
> this location.  Is this an expected condition? Since this the main
> configuration file for Xorg, can anyone else confirm this situation on
> a default system?
This is pretty normal, usually xorg.conf is not needed anymore.
>
> 2) The workaround for detecting the recommended drivers mentioned by
> benste in Bug #518067
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jockey/+bug/518067> did not
> work for me. please can anyone else confirm the same? Also I am not
> sure how to proceed further with testing, should I just download the
> latest driver form Nvidia or wait for the issue to be fixed. I know it
> was disscussed on an earlier mail, but I could not grasp the suggestion.
Personally i have an ATI graphic card and the driver didn't show up in
the "Hardware drivers" application, so i just installed the ubuntu
package manually in order to run the other tests.
so apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx for me, i don't know the package
name for the nvidia proprietary driver, it depends on your graphic card
i think it's like "nvidia-glx-xxx" with xxx = 180 or 177 or 173, or even
nvidia-glx-new or nvidia-glx or nvidia-glx-legacy

you can check the graphic card supported by each driver in these pages :
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/180.22/README/appendix-a.html
(for the nvidia-glx-180)
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/173.14.12/README/appendix-a.html
(for the nvidia-glx-173)
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/169.12/README/appendix-a.html
(for the nvidia-glx-new)

if your card is very old you may be interested in the nvidia-glx-96 or
nvidia-glx-71 and you may find information about supported graphic card
by these drivers on this page http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html
(2nd and 3rd section)

>
> 3) For issue with the system freeze when enter key is pressed (Bug
> #516412); instead of removing plymouth package, the following work
> around that worked for me:
> At grub select recovery mode. select drop to root option and execute
> "start gdm" at prompt. once gdm comes up I am able to use enter key
> without any issues. I read this/similar work around on another bug report.
I don't know if i experienced your crash, but when i first log in, it
crash and i have to log in again, and then sometimes it works and i have
gnome working and i can use ubuntu.
>
> Thank you,

my 2 cents !

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Yann Sionneau