x server failed to start, nVidia

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 18:03 -0600, Chris Mohler wrote:
> nv  - the nouveau driver - the open-source community Nvidia driver

Two different things: nv is the old 2D-only free driver, and nouveau is
a new project to develop a free 3D-capable driver

> nvidia - the proprietary Nvidia driver

Though in Ubuntu there is nvidia, nvidia-new, and nvidia-legacy. Depends
on the age of your card.