[mdlug] HP printer working well

[Jeff Hanson]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:19 PM, Raymond McLaughlin
<driveray at ameritech.net> wrote:
> Last year I did go with an HP DV9000 series laptop. Everything but the
> Ricoh card reader work perfectly, until about 2 weeks after the the one
> year warranty expired. Then the NVidia video failed. I can boot to
> command line, but even there the text characters look "worm eaten" and
> sketchy. Most of the time X will not start, the error is:"could not
> initialize NVidia /dev/nvidia0" (or words very much like that.) Even the
> HP logo at the first power up splash, and the bois screens look "off".
>
> I'm looking to get a second opinion, but I think I'll need to replace
> the motherboard. :(
>
> Other than that, it worked great!
>

You're not alone.  Just search with Google for "bad nvidia gpu".  It's
why I went with a Radeon for a recent purchase.