Public bug reported:
I have an NVidia graphics card "NV18 [GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU]". When I
first installed Hardy beta the resolution would not go any higher than
800x600, so I went to System > Administration > Hardware Drivers, and
selected to enable the restricted nvidia drivers. It installs the
nvidia-glx package and then tells me I need to restart the system.
However once I restart the system, the X server no longer starts and I
am dropped to the text console. And I thought the new X server was
supposed to be "bulletproof".
After trying to start the X server manually, I found the error in the console
output:
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Parse error on line 4 of section Device in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
This section must have an Identifier line.
(EE) Problem parsing the config file
(EE) Error parsing the config file
Before I enabled the restricted drivers, there was no xorg.conf file. But now
that it needed to request the restricted nvidia graphics driver, it created a
new xorg.conf file. This file is what was causing the X server to crash. After
I added:
Identifier "Default Device"
to the Device section and:
Identifier "Default Screen"
to the Screen section, the X server worked perfectly.
I have attached below the original xorg.conf file that was created by
enabling the restricted nvidia drivers (named "xorg.conf.broken") and
the file modified by me which works perfectly "xorg.conf.fixed"). With
this modified file the nvidia drivers work and that has fixed both my
resolution problems and allows compiz to work.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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X server will not start after enabling restricted nvidia drivers
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/218478
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