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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

  1. Bug #643895
  2. Comment #36

Comment 36 for bug 643895

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Yorik van Havre (yorikvanhavre) wrote : Re: nvidia propietary driver fails to load X with geforce 310M

As far as I read there is no way to disable a PCI slot, so the solution is to force the use of the correct slot.
Check in your /var/log/Xorg.0.conf, you should find a line like this (this is from another computer, so the chip type will be different):

(II) Nov 24 09:47:43 NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 8400M GS (G86M) at PCI:1:0:0 (GPU-0)

indicating that the nvidia driver found an nvidia chip at the given pci slot. If yes, I suppose the asterisk above doesn't mean anything relevant to our problem...