black screen when switching to a virtual terminal with nvidia-180

[dyf]

installed the 180 driver from the restricted drivers manager, everything works fine in the GUI, but when i hit alt+ctrl+f1, i get a black screen with noise in the middle (kinda like an old broken screen)..

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-glx-180 180.27-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-6-generic x86_64

[Hew (hew)]

Thanks for your report. This sounds like bug 304136 which was fixed some time ago. Does the problem still exist with up-to-date Jaunty? If so, does the problem disappear when using the nv driver?

[dyf (dawi21)]

sorry it took me a while to reply.. i wasn't sure how to set the driver to 'nv'
i talked to somebody on #ubuntu+1 and he said i should just remove the nvidia driver from the Restricted Drivers Manager.. i did that and i was able to use the terminal, no problems..

the problem exists with the nvidia driver activated. and it exists even with the latest updates of Jaunty. i also don't know if this might help but i had the same issue when i was using openSuSE; so there is a chance that the driver is broken..

while we're at it, I also get a black screen when i log in to gnome, i have to refresh the screen by hitting ctrl-alt-f1 then ctrl-alt-f7 to be able to see the GUI..

thanks
~dyf

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi dawi21,

Thanks for including the attached files. Could you also include your /var/log/Xorg.0.log (or Xorg.0.log.old) from after reproducing the issue?

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[Marco (0m3g4)]

i have same problem with up-to-date Jaunty.

p.s. i attached my Xorg.0.log

[dyf (dawi21)]

here is mine..
apologies for the late reply

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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In Jaunty (9.04), we have just updated to the latest
nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 package from nVidia, version 180.44.

This package provides fixes for a large number of bugs, and we need your
assistance in testing if it fixes the issue you reported.

To do this, please do the following:

 a. Update to the 180.44 version of -nvidia using your favorite update
     method

 b. Attempt to reproduce your bug

 c. If your bug still remains, please simply reply to this email
     indicating so.

 d. If your bug is now solved, you can help us by setting your bug
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     * Set the Status field to 'Fix Released'
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 e. If the original problem is solved but there are now other problems,
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For details on the changes in this version of -nvidia, please see:

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[dyf (dawi21)]

hi,
just reporting that the bug still exist even with the new driver..

[Invalid User (invalid)]

Confirming that the bug still exists in 180.51 from the official installer.

[Invalid User (invalid)]

Sorry, I was thinking of a different black box problem, ignore my last post.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.