Hi Guys: As some people might be aware, very recent NVIDIA hardware has been unable to boot Karmic live disks. I've discovered the root cause of this problem and written a patch as a band-aid. Upstream isn't keen upon fixing it with the band-aid, but wants to make architectural changes to the X server instead. We will intend on carrying the band-aid patch until those architectural changes are fleshed out and arrive in a newer X release (LL or MM likely). I'd like if I can get some feedback on the patch though from people with NVIDIA hardware before uploading it to the archive as a preventative measure not to make things worse. So if you've got NVIDIA hardware (either that did or didn't work with karmic), please follow these steps: <ol><li>Download a recent i386 live CD, ubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu, mythbuntu, whatever you want. </li><li>Boot said live cd</li><li>Switch to VT1</li><li>If gdm/kdm started successfully, stop them.</li><li>Install this deb: <a href="http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31853079/xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.1.14-2ubuntu3_i386.deb">http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31853079/xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.1.14-2ubuntu3_i386.deb</a></li> <li>Either startx/restart gdm/restart kdm</li><li>Take note whether X started and report back to <a href="https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+bug/385658">https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+bug/385658</a> or to this ML post</li> </ol>Hopefully this should get more people with NVIDIA hardware to boot up to X, without causing anyone to lose the ability to boot X. Thanks, -- Mario Limonciello <a href="mailto:superm1@gmail.com">superm1@gmail.com</a>