Boots to blank Ssreen on Sony Vaio CW with Nvidia Geforce 310M

[Veysel Harun Sahin]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

Just after loading the Nouveau driver blank screen appears and the computer becomes useless. Actually the system continues to load and seems to work but I can't see anything. Thus booting to live image or trying the installation from the live image does not work. Setup from alternate image works. But then I get the same blank screen when the system starts to boot just after the nouveau drivers loaded. Booting into recovery mode does not work either. I could not even get a virtual terminal so no bug report.
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Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.15, 2.6.32-21-generic, i686: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1)
MachineType: Sony Corporation VPCCW29FX
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=980f68c3-f9ed-4c8b-baf4-2d749bad82e6 ro nouveau.modeset=0 quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Tags: lucid lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 02/26/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: R0140Y7
dmi.board.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.board.name: VAIO
dmi.board.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.board.version: N/A
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: N/A
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Sony Corporation
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrR0140Y7:bd02/26/2010:svnSonyCorporation:pnVPCCW29FX:pvrA222GYYR:rvnSonyCorporation:rnVAIO:rvrN/A:cvnSonyCorporation:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: VPCCW29FX
dmi.product.version: A222GYYR
dmi.sys.vendor: Sony Corporation
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-21-generic

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Hi Veysel,

Please run the command 'apport-collect BUGNUMBER', which will attach several files we need for debugging.

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[Veysel Harun Sahin (harunsahin)]

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[Veysel Harun Sahin (harunsahin)]

Hi Bryce,

I sent the information with apport. But I should inform you that I can not login to my system with nouveau even with a vt. So I disabled nouveau and now using nvidia binary drivers with the famous :) EDID hack. I hope this information will be helpful for you.

On the other hand, if there is another thing I can do to help debugging please let me know.

Thanks.

[DeBø (black-painkiller)]

I confirm this bug. Sony vaio Cw with Nvidia Gt230m.

[Ferran (fompi)]

Affected with vaio VPC-CW2X

Managed to install with alternate install; then:

* boot with the alternate
* mounted my new install, chrooted inside them
* copied /dev directory to /$mntpoint/dev, mount proc to /$mntpoint/proc
* edit /etc/default/grub, added "nomodeset" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
* exec update-grub

Reboot and worked :)

I won't needed to reboot if ubuntu came with ssh, like everyone else.

[Yap Siauw Soen Gie (xuen-ie)]

Affected to VPC-CW26FG with NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M

[Jonathan Ernst (jonathan.ernst)]

Affects VPC-CW2S1E too

[Giacomo (poderi1980)]

I have the same problem on a Vaio VPCCW1S1E whic uses:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce GT 230M] (rev a2)

at the moment I cannot use driver nouveau (which actually cause my screen going black and making laptop useless) and probably cannot give useful report.
As for the message #24 I installed on another kernel (2.6.31 the binary nvidia driver).

Trying to load kernel 2.6.32-22 (the one which has nouveau installed and which is unusable) I managed to retrieve these information from kernel.log

[ 17.911547] [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810
[ 18.027788] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.2, id: 0x1c0b1, caps: 0xd04731/0xa40000
[ 18.074948] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio2/input/input9
[ 18.159632] alloc irq_desc for 22 on node -1
[ 18.159635] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1
[ 18.159641] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
[ 18.159700] HDA Intel 0000:00:1b.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 18.254920] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 18.254933] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 18.257035] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: failed to evaluate _DSM: 5
[ 18.257561] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Detected an NV50 generation card (0x0a5500a2)
[ 18.260526] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Attempting to load BIOS image from PRAMIN
[ 18.370415] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: ... appears to be valid
[ 18.370420] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: BIT BIOS found
[ 18.370422] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Bios version 70.16.27.00
[ 18.370425] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Pointer to BIT loadval table invalid
[ 18.370498] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: TMDS table revision 2.0 not currently supported
[ 18.370501] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Found Display Configuration Block version 4.0
[ 18.370504] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DCB connector table: VHER 0x40 5 16 4
[ 18.370507] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0: 0x00000040: type 0x40 idx 0 tag 0xff
[ 18.370509] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 1: 0x00000100: type 0x00 idx 1 tag 0xff
[ 18.370512] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 2: 0x00001261: type 0x61 idx 2 tag 0x07
[ 18.370515] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 0: 010003f3 00010036
[ 18.370517] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 1: 02011300 00000000
[ 18.370520] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 2: 02422362 00020010
[ 18.370522] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Raw DCB entry 3: 0000000e 00000000
[ 18.370537] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset 0xD52B
[ 18.422679] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input10
[ 18.440051] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xD84D: Condition still not met after 20ms, skipping following opcodes
[ 18.470028] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xD851: Condition still not met after 20ms, skipping following opcodes
[ 18.500051] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: 0xDA0E: Condition still not met after 20ms, skipping following opcodes
[ 18.500060] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset 0xDA3B
[ 18.560074] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset 0xE7C5...

[DeBø (black-painkiller)]

try ubuntu 11.04 alpha on a usb stick!!

finally the problem is solved on vaio cw nvidia gt230 :)
thanks to kernel 2.6.37, I believe.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for letting us know this was resolved with the newer kernel. If others find this is still a problem in Lucid, and the kernel as of 10.04.4 still does not work, feel free to re-open this bug.