nvidia driver leaves me with unrecoverable black screen after boot splash
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When I install nvidia-current, I get a black screen after the splash at boot. The only remedy I can find is to boot into a recovery mode and uninstall nvidia-current and return to nouveau, which has its own host of critical problems.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: nvidia-current (not installed)
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,composite
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Wed Oct 24 17:42:44 2012
DistUpgraded: 2012-10-24 15:10:11,826 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
DistroCodename: quantal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
virtualbox, 4.1.18, 3.2.0-32-generic, x86_64: installed
virtualbox, 4.1.18, 3.5.0-17-generic, x86_64: installed
GraphicsCard:
NVIDIA Corporation Device [10de:08a0] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Apple Inc. Device [106b:00c2]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro7,1
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: nvidia-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-10-24 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/07/11
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP71.88Z.
dmi.board.name: Mac-F222BEC8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro7,1
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
modified.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.8.4-0ubuntu3
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.39-0ubuntu1
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nvidia-bug-report log