Driver load at boot

[Rick]

At normal boot

If use xorg driver display remain black after boot
If use nvidia driver display and keyboard backlight flickers

At recovery mode
Boots normally

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu7.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-74.84-generic 4.15.18
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-74-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.9
Architecture: i386
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Thu Jan 23 19:32:44 2020
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: bionic
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
 bcmwl, 6.30.223.271+bdcom, 4.15.0-65-generic, i686: installed
 bcmwl, 6.30.223.271+bdcom, 4.15.0-74-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 5.2.34, 4.15.0-65-generic, i686: installed
 virtualbox, 5.2.34, 4.15.0-74-generic, i686: installed
ExtraDebuggingInterest: I just need to know a workaround
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation MCP89 [GeForce 320M] [10de:08a0] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Apple Inc. MCP89 [GeForce 320M] [106b:00c2]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-08-13 (528 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release i386 (20180725)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro7,1
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.15.0-74-generic root=UUID=c9b3b341-3777-4a4a-b9dd-d5bb2d942cbf ro recovery nomodeset
Renderer: Software
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgLogOld:

dmi.bios.date: 02/02/18
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP71.88Z.003F.B00.1802021458
dmi.board.name: Mac-F222BEC8
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F222BEC8
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP71.88Z.003F.B00.1802021458:bd02/02/18:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro7,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F222BEC8:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F222BEC8:
dmi.product.family: MacBook Pro
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro7,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.99-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 19.2.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 19.2.1-1ubuntu1~18.04.1
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.3
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.0.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-2
xserver.bootTime: Thu Jan 23 19:29:35 2020
xserver.configfile: default
xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:

xserver.version: 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu4.3

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks for the bug report but ideally each bug should only describe a single problem and you have described two. Please reproduce each problem separately and log a new bug for each while it is happening so that we can see the current state of the machine.