Update: Only 180 is working. 173 FAIL! 2009/5/9 M.Letcher <m.letc...@q.com>
> Ok, another weekend, another try, and still no joy. I disabled the CD > option in the update manager. At least Jockey didn't crash this time. > However, the only option in hardware drivers this time was for nv - which > appeared to default to nv-173. Jockey looked for drivers but didn't even > offer options for 173 much less 180. Attempting to enable effects failed > after a search for drivers. So, once again I manually removed nv-180-glx, > re-installed it and experienced the failure of X to start. Again, > /dev/nvidia0 isn't recognized and so the 8800-GT card at PCI-1:0.0 fails to > get initialized and X fails. Back to Vista, again. I'm sooo disappointed > that this is taking more than 4 months to resolve as its just getting a > graphics driver installed. > Any suggestions or help is greatly appreaciated. > I've been trying to get my nieces interested in Ubuntu but this is giving > me caution in suggesting it to them. They're busy enough already and lack my > patience. > > -- > jockey backend crashed when trying to install nvidia driver > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350776 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “jockey” source package in Ubuntu: Confirmed > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: jockey-common > > While installing nvidia propritery drivers (180) in Jaunty Kubuntu Beta, > jockey backend crashed with following error : Sorry, the Jockey backend > crashed. Please file a bug at: ubuntu-bug jockey-common Trying to recover by > restarting backend. Unable to perform update after this. > -- E é como sempre dizem: Charles Kuralt<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_kuralt.html> - "You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars." -- jockey backend crashed when trying to install nvidia driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350776 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs