GeForce 6200 - X server refuses to start

[Michal Suchanek]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nv

Xserver complains about something on the card and refuses to start altogether.

This, unfortunately, means the installer would not start.

Once the system installed the low graphics mode is available.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.1.12-1ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersion: Linux version 2.6.28-11-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.3.3 (Ubuntu 4.3.3-5ubuntu4) ) #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 17 01:57:59 UTC 2009
SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nv
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[lspci]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge [8086:7190] (rev 03)
     Subsystem: Creative Labs Device [1102:8027]
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV44A [GeForce 6200] [10de:0221] (rev a1)
     Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:0130]

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

This seems to be somewhat system specific.

The card does not work with nvidia nor noveau, and does work out of the box when plugged into a K8 board. Perhaps not AGP 1x compatible?

It all the drivers complain about something being zero - framebuffer in the case of nv and noveau, some PCI resource in the case of the three available nvidia drivers.

[David Svanberg (david-svanberg)]

Same problem with 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 9300M GS (rev a1).

[David Svanberg (david-svanberg)]

Added my Xorg.0.log, note the sudden death:

(II) Primary Device is: PCI 00@00:02:0
(EE) No devices detected.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

What you are seeing is different. For you no driver loads, and you probably need an updated intel driver for that device.

For me the nv (or nvidia) driver loads but fails to drive the card.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

The fix for bug 385658 redoes how card detection works with -nv and may solve this bug. Please test Karmic-beta or newer and verify if it does.

[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.

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

I don't have the card at hand so I cannot easily re-test.

However, the card is not of some hybrid type ad it is detected correctly, the X driver just fails to initialize it on some hardware.