Nvidia 8800 video card - black screen - system does not complete startup
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Mainboard: Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe Wireless Edition
Video Card: Nvidia 8800 GTS 640MB
I tried the new release, installed 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Tribe 5 from alternate 64bit CD. System does not complete startup process and gets stuck when launching gdm showing nothing but a black screen, i.e. it fails showing the (superfluous) splash screen. (It is also not possible to open another console with alt-ctrl-F1)
Rebooting in recovery mode and looking into log files reveals the following: Last thing to see in /var/log/messages is about setting up the Bluetooth support, which is performed just before initializing gdm. Last thing to see in /var/log/Xorg.0.log is ...DPMS enabled.
Entering "init 5" at the root prompt (while still in recovery mode) does bring up the rest of the system including gdm. Modifying /boot/grub/menu.lst and doing away with kernel option "splash" does solve the problem - the system will boot right into gdm.
Just another note: While not having 3D acceleration, which is almost unbearable having such a monster of graphics card, using the open-source driver does at least make the system usable. Installing the restricted driver makes things much worse resulting in error "could not open device file /dev/nvidia0". I will report this in a separate bug report after having done more analyzing.
I believe I am having the same problem but with a GeForce FX 5900XT. I did not try all of the workarounds that the poster had tried, but I will do so before confirming the bug.