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  12        <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  20   <div class="title">KDM fail at boot with NVidia cards - and no one try to fix it?</div>
  21   <div class="date">2010-06-01 17:05</div>
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  23 <p>It is strange to watch how a bug in Debian causing KDM to fail to
  24 start at boot when an NVidia video card is used is handled.  The
  25 problem seem to be that the nvidia X.org driver uses a long time to
  26 initialize, and this duration is longer than kdm is configured to
  27 wait.</p>
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  29 <p>I came across two bugs related to this issue,
  30 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/583312">#583312</a> initially filed
  31 against initscripts and passed on to nvidia-glx when it became obvious
  32 that the nvidia drivers were involved, and
  33 <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/524751">#524751</a> initially filed against
  34 kdm and passed on to src:nvidia-graphics-drivers for unknown reasons.</p>
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  36 <p>To me, it seem that no-one is interested in actually solving the
  37 problem nvidia video card owners experience and make sure the Debian
  38 distribution work out of the box for these users.  The nvidia driver
  39 maintainers expect kdm to be set up to wait longer, while kdm expect
  40 the nvidia driver maintainers to fix the driver to start faster, and
  41 while they wait for each other I guess the users end up switching to a
  42 distribution that work for them.  I have no idea what the solution is,
  43 but I am pretty sure that waiting for each other is not it.</p>
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  45 <p>I wonder why we end up handling bugs this way.</p>
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