Ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-nv package

blank screen on reboot after enabling nvidia restricted driver

Bug #475909 reported by willco007 on 2009-11-05

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xorg

After clean installing 9.10 I installed the restricted nvidia driver. I then restarted and was greeted with a blank screen on launch. Restarting in recovery mode and reverting my xorg.conf file to use the default driver restored video. The nvidia driver worked correctly in 9.04.

Please let me know if I can provide additional information.

lspci output:
spci -vvnn | grep VGA
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA- VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA- VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3] [10de:0200] (rev a3)
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 5 13:59:18 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=be4aec79-fd21-4d96-ab99-3a8b2054cc8e ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
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
SourcePackage: xorg
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 09/24/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1004.001
dmi.board.name: P4P800-E
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset-1234567890
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Chassis Manufacture
dmi.chassis.version: Chassis Version
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1004.001:bd09/24/2004:svnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:pvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnP4P800-E:rvrRev1.xx:cvnChassisManufacture:ct3:cvrChassisVersion:
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: i686kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

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willco007 (will-panic) wrote on 2009-11-05:

Xorg.0.log Edit (30.1 KiB, text/plain)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (36.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (9.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lsusb.txt Edit (702 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciDisplay.txt Edit (765 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfo.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcInterrupts.txt Edit (1.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcModules.txt Edit (1.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevDb.txt Edit (87.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevLog.txt Edit (104.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgConf.txt Edit (1.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLog.txt Edit (30.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XorgLogOld.txt Edit (13.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Xrandr.txt Edit (2.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (914 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
glxinfo.txt Edit (669 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
setxkbmap.txt Edit (233 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xdpyinfo.txt Edit (2.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
xkbcomp.txt Edit (53.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2009-11-06

affects:

xorg (Ubuntu) → xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu)

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2009-11-06

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2010-02-23:

Thank you for reporting this issue about xserver-xorg-video-nv. Starting
with Lucid, Ubuntu is transitioning to using the -nouveau video driver
by default instead of -nv. The reason for this change is because
upstream development for the -nv driver has been quite slow. We are
quite pleased with the upstream development speed for -nouveau, and hope
this will translate into swifter bug fixes as well.

Because of this, I'm closing this bug report at this time. I'm marking
it wontfix because what you describe is probably a valid issue, but we
do not have further plans to work on it in Ubuntu. If you would still like
to see this issue investigated, I would encourage you to file it
upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/.

Changed in xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Won't Fix

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