graphics card confuses ubuntu must install in safe grapics mode

[cute_bettong]

i am running a MSI K9VGM-v mainboard with a 2gigs of ddr2 a 500gb sata hard drive and a BFG nvidia Geforce 7800 GT OC card lspci reports it as (02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G70 [GeForce 7800 GT] (rev a1)

the mainboards bios version is 1.4

apon starting the computer from live cd, all seems well the computer seems to be doing fine, untill the gui boots, then it freezes up solid as a rock.

dmesg gives this error ( [ 132.493034] +------ PCI-Express Device Error ------+
[ 132.493036] Error Severity : Uncorrected (Non-Fatal)
[ 132.493039] PCIE Bus Error type : Transaction Layer
[ 132.493042] Flow Control Protocol : First
[ 132.493044] Receiver ID : 0010
[ 132.493047] VendorID=1106h, DeviceID=a238h, Bus=00h, Device=02h, Function=00h
[ 132.493051] pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: broadcast error_detected message
[ 132.493055] pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: broadcast mmio_enabled message
[ 132.493059] pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: broadcast resume message
[ 132.493078] pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: AER driver successfully recovered
[ 133.909863] firmware: requesting rt2561s.bin
[ 134.499616] NET: Registered protocol family 17 )

basically what happens from what i can tell (im no software or code guru) is ubuntu trys to boot the onboard card, which has no hardware jumper only a bios software switch, to turn it to the pci X card, and ubuntu gets confused about this, so it locks up. it seems to be working better than the previous version of ubuntu which to install it correctly, i had to remove the onboard card, find a vga cable plug it into my monitor and boot the computer, install ubuntu, then shut the computer back down, install the card, hook up the DVI cable and then start the computer again.

this is rather inconvienent, i have been told it's everything from a bad bios update, to falty hardware, if there is any suggestions i would greatly appricate them, i would rather not have to buy a new mainboard.

also when running envyng-gtk the ubuntu restricted drivers app shows up in the tray icon telling me there are restricted drivers availible, it gives me about 3 or 4 drivers to choose from even though i have run Envyng-gtk to get the proper graphics drivers for my computer.

if any other information is needed please contact me at

Elphias (at) Gmail.com.

thank you for your time and all your wonderfull and excruceatingly hard work.

Elphias.

version of ubuntu 8.10
release 8.10

[reez (g-k-gmx)]

I have a similar problem:

syslog:
Jan 24 00:20:02 xyz x-session-manager[5553]: WARNING: Application 'libcanberra-login-sound.desktop' failed to register before timeout
Jan 24 00:20:04 xyz pulseaudio[5656]: module-x11-xsmp.c: X11 session manager not running.
Jan 24 00:20:04 xyz pulseaudio[5656]: module.c: Failed to load module "module-x11-xsmp" (argument: ""): initialization failed.
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745829] +------ PCI-Express Device Error ------+
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745836] Error Severity^I^I: Uncorrected (Non-Fatal)
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745838] PCIE Bus Error type^I: Transaction Layer
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745840] Flow Control Protocol ^I: First
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745843] Receiver ID^I^I: 0010
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745845] VendorID=1106h, DeviceID=a238h, Bus=00h, Device=02h, Function=00h
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745847] pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: broadcast error_detected message
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745850] pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: broadcast mmio_enabled message
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745852] pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: broadcast resume message
Jan 24 00:20:08 xyz kernel: [ 55.745861] pcieport-driver 0000:00:02.0: AER driver successfully recovered

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lspci -s 00:02.0
00:02.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. K8T890 PCI to PCI Bridge Controll
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MSI K9VGM-v
Athlon64 X2 6000+
XFX Nvidia Geforce 7900 GT
2GB DDR2
Ubuntu 8.10

Als my virtual consoles stuck by displaying the the syslog error messages.
Get the error message also when i boot the ubuntu live CD and go to virtual console.

[theOtherMarino (k-contact-html4-com)]

Epxeriencing the same thing with the same motherboard. Ubuntu works fine withe the onboard graphic chipset. Adding my nvidia geforce 7300 se brings up tons of "+------ PCI-Express Device Error ------+".

Seems the AER driver panics. Adding the option aerdriver.forceload=y in /boot/grub/menu.lst has no effect. Setting the option "Primary Graphic's Adapter" to PCIEx in the BIOS has no effect.

Windows user do not experience this problem, so it appears to be an incompatibility between linux/ubuntu and this motherboard.

See more here : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6909419

Regards,

Marino Ceccotti
http://markup.fr/

[theOtherMarino (k-contact-html4-com)]

I answer to myself. I've added some parameters to the GRUB boot file.
aerdriver.forceload=y
acpi=force
pci=nommconf (on the kernel line)

 The whole story here: http://www.markup.fr/Carte-graphique-nvidia-geforce

It's in french, but the parameters appear clearly in red.

Regards,

Marino Ceccotti
http://marlkup.fr/

[DFenton (fentond)]

Status updated to confirmed by reason of details of error found.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

cute_bettong, thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu. Intrepid reached EOL on April 30, 2010.
See this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Is this an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please execute the following command, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 306962

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]