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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #573557
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 573557

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Daniel Dadap (ddadap) wrote :

Thanks for all the reports. We have tracked this down to a problem with the kernel's VGA arbiter trying to move VGA ownership to a GPU that hasn't POSTed. We're working with the developers of the VGA arbiter to get this fixed in the kernel.

In the meantime, we have a patch which works around the issue by preventing the VGA arbiter from moving VGA ownership away from the default device. It is attached as "NVIDIA_kernel-195.36.24-682377.diff". You can apply the patch by downloading the latest installer from http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-ia32-195.36.24.html (32-bit) or http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-195.36.24.html (64-bit) and running the installer with the "--apply-patch /path/to/patch.diff" option. This will create a patched installer with a name ending in "-custom.run", which will install a driver with this workaround.

If you're not comfortable with applying the patch yourself, or with working out the conflicts between the driver as installed by the NVIDIA installer and the driver as installed by Jockey (the restricted drivers manager) then please wait until an updated package is available through Jockey.