Black screen with LiveCD and nVidia NV11 GeForce2 Go

[jhansonxi]

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Beta 1 i386
PXE booting over NFS.
Dell Inspiron 2650
Boots to black screen unless nomodeset is specified in the boot options. Other options including "single" and "xforcevesa" have no effect.
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AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.21.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: I82801CAICH3 [Intel 82801CA-ICH3], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801CA-ICH3]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: ubuntu 2379 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'I82801CAICH3'/'Intel 82801CA-ICH3 with STAC9700,83,84 at irq 10'
   Mixer name : 'SigmaTel STAC9700,83,84'
   Components : 'AC97a:83847600'
   Controls : 27
   Simple ctrls : 19
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
IwConfig:
 lo no wireless extensions.

 eth0 no wireless extensions.
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 062a:0000 Creative Labs Optical mouse
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0e6a:6001 Megawin Technology Co., Ltd
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0451:1446 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB2040/2070 Hub
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation Inspiron 2650
Package: linux (not installed)
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: initrd=/isomnt/hostname-10.04-beta1-desktop-i386/casper/initrd.lz boot=casper netboot=nfs nfsroot=192.168.11.8:/srv/tftpboot/isomnt/hostname-10.04-beta1-desktop-i386 nomodeset -- BOOT_IMAGE=/isomnt/hostname-10.04-beta1-desktop-i386/casper/vmlinuz
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
Regression: Yes
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.32
Reproducible: Yes
RfKill:

Tags: lucid needs-upstream-testing regression-potential
TestedUpstream: No
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 03/23/2004
dmi.bios.vendor: PHOENIX TECHNOLOGIES LTD.
dmi.bios.version: A13
dmi.board.name: Inspiron 2650
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.board.version: None
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPHOENIXTECHNOLOGIESLTD.:bvrA13:bd03/23/2004:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnInspiron2650:pvrRevisionA0:rvnDellComputerCorporation:rnInspiron2650:rvrNone:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct1:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 2650
dmi.product.version: Revision A0
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation

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Similar nVidia-related reports:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9049282
Bug #537648

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi jhansonxi,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 556965

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[jhansonxi (jhansonxi)]

I'm not able to reproduce the problem with the final i386 10.04 LiveCD (Ubuntu, Xubuntu).