Hangs on boot at "Checking battery state..." with nVidia driver

[Caysho]

I see this with under mythbuntu 8.10 (fresh install and with current updates) on an nvidia 8400GS card on an Asus P5QL-E board with the nvidia 180 driver when installed via envyng
Some investigations at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6777316
If the 180 driver is installed via the Restricted Drivers Manager, it doesn't drop back to the text screen but still hangs with a blank screen.
The 173 and 177 drivers also don't drop back to the text screen and hang with a blank screen.

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 4 Series Chipset DRAM Controller [8086:2e20] (rev 02)
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:82d3]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400 GS [10de:06e4] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:8278]

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[Caysho (caysho)]

I decided to see what happens with a normal install of ubuntu (8.10), with no patches.
I installed the nvidia-180-modaliases and had the Restricted Drivers Manager give me the nvidia 180 driver option.
After that was done, I rebooted and the login prompt appears.
I get the plain brown background the mouse pointer could be moved briefly before it freezes. It does not drop back to the text prompt, the keyboard does not respond and a hard reset is needed.

[Caysho (caysho)]

Tried it with mythbuntu Alpha 5, with the same problem.

[Caysho (caysho)]

The following is without the two tv tuners installed:

I installed mythbuntu 8.10 with current updates to today.
Installed the nvidia-180-modaliases and used enyng to install the nvidia driver (180).
I then unselected the mythtv front end from autostarting in the xfce4 autostart manager.

Rebooted the machine, and now the desktop is usable until I use an application that touches anything to do with GLX:
mythtv frontend.
glxgears
the nvidia bug reporter (though it does appear to generate a complete file)
nvidia-settings (but only when selecting the GLX information).

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

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In Jaunty (9.04), we have just updated to the latest
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[Caysho (caysho)]

Installed mythbuntu daily build from 9th April 2009, used envyng to install the nvidia 180.44 driver.
Now the "Checking battery state..." does not happen - just a blank screen after the boot/load splash has finished.

[Caysho (caysho)]

Looks like this was a hardware problem.
Got another motherboard (Gigabyte) and video card, mythbuntu installs ok with the nvidia driver and glxgears runs fine.
Marking as invalid.