same here, everything was ok under karmic, now from time to time X
restart in compatilibily mode (with a half a screen stranslation, but
it's another issue) and i have to accept to switch to the driver
(vesa?), when i go back into my session I re run the nvidia-xconfig
utility and enjoy some time
Also, I would like to add that the fallback mode it's a mess, and it
isn't showed properly. So, the only way to fix it is falling back to
textual shell with ctrl alt F1 and logging in again.
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[Lucid Alpha] nVidia 8600 GTS needs NoPowerConnectorCheck option to work
This sounds like a hardware issue (power cord not plugged in). Can you
explain in more detail if it is not a hardware issue?
** Changed in: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Incomplete
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[Lucid Alpha] nVidia 8600 GTS needs NoPowerConnectorCheck option to work
It's not an hardware issue because that model of card doesn't have a
power connector to plug, so, to make it working it needs the
NoPowerConnectorCheck option to disable this check.
It would be nice to have a dialog box step in package installation that
if it detect this card model it show to the
** Summary changed:
- nVidia 8600 GTS need NoPowerConnectorCheck option
+ [Lucid Alpha] nVidia 8600 GTS needs NoPowerConnectorCheck option to work
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[Lucid Alpha] nVidia 8600 GTS needs NoPowerConnectorCheck option to work
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522588
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