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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #741930
  2. Comment #86

Comment 86 for bug 741930

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Sly_tom_cat (slytomcat) wrote :

Thanks Cedric!

I've added PPA and installed nvidia-96 driver.
But XServer failed to start reporting:

(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to allocate/map the primary surface!

Looking to the Internet gives the solution - to add nopat option in GRUB kernel loading string.
It helped. Now everything works fine!

uname -a
Linux stc-home 2.6.38-10-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 28 15:05:41 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux

Xubuntu 11.04