GeForce 7050 PV does not work on karmic alpha-5 - shows video corruption

[DarkJavi]

Downloaded a ubuntu 9.10 alpha 5 iso and burn it onto a usb stick.
When I try to boot my asrock-n68pv-gs motherboard with integrated nvidia graphics happens the following:
system boots, I see the progress bar but when the desktop should raise the screen gets plenty of garbage and the system hangs.Tryed safe vga mode from f4 option on the boot menu with no luck.

Plugged a pci-express nvidia 9400 and worked rigth.

This is the board:
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C68 [GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a] (rev a2)

[DarkJavi (darkjavi)]

some extra info:
I managed to install with the pci-express card, Then activated the nvidia proprietary driver,rebooted and switched back to the onboard GeForce 7050 PV,and it works, although a little buggy .There are some "shadows" on the left side and on mouse's cursor,also the system freezes for a few second when has some load.

Wich info could I provide for helping resolving this issue??

[Johan Bakker (johan-bakker)]

I've the same issues with the onboard GeForce 7050 nvidia card. Both with alpha 5 and alpha 6. In my case the nvidia graphics card is the onboard card on a ASUS M2N-VM (HDMI) motherboard.

I attached both the Xorg.0.log and the output of dmesg.

thanks,

Johan

[Johan Bakker (johan-bakker)]

and the output of dmesg (I couldn't figure out how to attach two files in the previous post.

[o00o (lbr-linux)]

I have the same problem with Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 6 . On mb asus M2N-VM . GeForce 7050. Out range frequency. I can't either run the safe mode. Has anyone made it run ?

Thanks.

Misael

[Tobbe (torbjorn-tornqvist)]

Hi,

I've tried the last alfa release and yesterdays final release. I can't install it at all. First it takes almost 5 minutes before next screen and that screen is not visible because the is only horizontal stripes on the screen. I never had any problems for prior versions of Ubuntu. What have been done to cause this now? Have they missed/forgotten about this graphic card or what?

Any fix on the horizon?

My comp:
ASUS M2N-VM (HDMI)
NVidia GeForce 7050 PV / NVIDIA nForce 630a (512MB)
4GB RAM

//Tobbe

[Alan Paget (talk-to-pag)]

This bug also affects me,

I can confirm behaviour above, I swapped out my faulty motherboard and existing 7800 GTX for a new motherboard with this card while runing Karmic beta. The new gfx worked under the nvidia drivers for the GTX.

When I upgraded to final karmic - gfx are broken with display out of scan range of monitor, garbage etc...

Unable to configure X using dpkg-configure.

Any resolution?

[Alan Paget (talk-to-pag)]

This can be worked around by launching live CD with safe graphics (use F4).

The fresh install starts with a safe resolution of 800x600 (maybe lower) and getting the Nvidia driver onto the machine via the restricted drivers menu should be possible.

Graphics now working - reconfiguration of display appears possible through Nvidia tool only.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Darkjavi, as a general rule we prefer people report bugs using 'ubuntu-bug xorg' since that includes information we need to troubleshoot (I typically only work on bugs reported that way). Alternatively you can run 'apport-collect 425372', which will attach that information to an existing bug report.

Since there were fixes between alpha-5 and now, can you re-test to see if this issue still occurs with the released ubuntu, and if so post the 'apport-collect 425372' info? A photo of the screen showing the corruption might help too, although since this is a proprietary driver there may be limited options we can do in ubuntu to address it.

[mangwills (mangwills)]

I also encountered the problem using the released Ubuntu 9.10 with Geforce 7050PV. I installed the OS using the Alternative installer. I was able to get the graphics working only by going to recovery mode and installing nvidia-glx, and then running nvidia-xconfig.

[sylvainsjc (sylvainsjc)]

I've reported same problem here :

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/432662

--
Sylvain

[mangwills (mangwills)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 004 Device 002: ID 1241:1603 Belkin
 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=a09c4808-5055-4e1e-b6bd-050d8914ae65 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_PH.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 12/17/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P2.00
dmi.board.name: ALiveNF7G-HD720p
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP2.00:bd12/17/2007:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvn:rnALiveNF7G-HD720p:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

[mangwills (mangwills)]

The attached Xorg.0.log.old is the log file when the screen corruption occurs. This happens when there is no /etc/X11/Xorg.conf file.

With the attached Xorg.conf with log file Xorg.0.log, there is no screen corruption.

[luca_ing (luca-ingianni)]

OBSERVATION:

Happens to me too.

Datapoint: lspci says the Adapter is:
nVidia Corporation C68 [GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a] (rev a2)

I got a garbled screen on X startup, but I could drop to console and manually install nvidia-glx the way detailed in comment #9 .
I didn't try to boot into safe mode, so no idea whether that would have worked.

EXPECTATION:
X should start without trouble, perhaps by falling back to a safe default.

[luca_ing (luca-ingianni)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (not installed)
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/mapper/ngbits-root ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0-1ubuntu4
 libdrm2 2.4.14-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.9.0-1ubuntu2
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090929.7968e1fb-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout libvirtd lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2921): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:2921): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3032): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:3018): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed
dmi.bios.date: 04/11/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: P1.10
dmi.board.name: ALiveNF7G-FullHD..
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrP1.10:bd04/11/2008:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvn:rnALiveNF7G-FullHD..:rvr:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic
xkbcomp:
 Error: command ['xkbcomp', ':0', '-w0', '-'] failed with exit code 1: No protocol specified
 Error: Cannot open display ":0"
                   Exiting

[Andreas Kostyrka (andreas-kostyrka)]

Installed via standard AMD64 Karmic CD.

Normal mode => out of range.
Safe mode => 800x600

Opened Terminal:
sudo -i
apt-get install nvidia-glx-185
nvidia-xconfig
restart gdm

Running with 1920x1080 now.

So this is not critical as it can be worked around, OTOH it gives a bad first impression on rather common hardware.

Andreas

[Witold Baryluk (baryluk)]

Have the same problem on i386 Ubuntu 9.10 on machine with:
00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C68 [GeForce 7050 PV / nForce 630a] (rev a2)

lspci -n
00:12.0 0300: 10de:053b (rev a2)

This is integrated graphic chip on ASrock 939N68PV-GLAN. I'm using VGA output.

After booting from Install CD into "Testing Ubntu befor install", i see bootscreen with progress ok. Then X server lanchues, and my LCD (Samsung SyncMaster 710v) goes crazy it displays some green lines and some pattern in squares which filicrs. It mainly consists of green, yellow and blinking red vertical lines of 1 or 3 pixels wide. My monitor also shows diagnostic box that Not Optimum Mode, Recommended Mode : 1280x1024 60Hz. After one minute screen goes blank to save energy (even if i move mouse, etc), and becuase mode is inproper. Moving mouse or pressing Alt-F2 doesn't chang any pixel (beyond stil blinking) on the screen.

But keyboard works, Alt-F2 does something (i hear CD spinning), and Ctrl-Alt-F1 switches me to the Linux console. (then i can be back by Alt-F7 exactly like on the begning).

Text mode is also broken in Linux console. it is in 80x25 real text mode (no fb), displays text correctly in proper color et al, but cursor (small bar) is blinking always at the upper left corner of the screen (first character of console).

Shift-PageUp/PageDown doesn't work. "clear" and "reset" works, they clear screen and puts prompt at the top. But they put this prompt on the second line sometimes (in if when it was clearning i will press additional enter)! In first line I still see some text from before the clear/reset. If i now switch to Alt-F2 and then back Alt-F1, first line will dissapear and will be empty or empty prompt. But I still will be writing in the second.

When i hit bottom of the screen, console doesn't scroll. So i effectivelly doesn't see what I type also. Even if i hit enter 200 times, it will not scroll (so it is not thinking that i have 50 line screen). BUT when i will switch Alt-F2 and then Alt-F2 screen is correctly redrawed and i see what i was typing bellow the screen.

Somtimes there are other strange behaviours with scrolling (or more appropriate not scrolling but cycling again from the begining somehow), but it is quite reare and can't find exact pattern (it happend when i keep pressing enter for longer time an from time to time ener some other text, of course not seeing this).

What is also interesting is that when I perform cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log screen scrolls somehow! There is also some situations when screen scrolls (or more appropriatly it instantly switches to new state, without scrolling, when i keep typing bellow visible screen, and then stop). Some really strange timing issues probably. 'more' command isn't working very well (but after PgDown, switch to F2 and then to F1, it is ussable to view some files).

PS. I have also "cx88 IR (AverTB Studio 303 M12" Radio/TV tunner which is correctly detected by X.

BTW. Screen corruption isn't exactly like on the http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35284915/screen-corruption.jpg (on this image there are square structure, which my problem lacks, only vertical lines + few ...