Black screen after updating graphics card and reboot

[tbruneti]

Binary package hint: xorg

My laptop is an HP Pavilion dv9574ea with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M graphics card.

I have damaged my Vista HDD so decided to try UBUNTU 9.10 from the boot CD.
This only worked in F4 Safe Graphics Mode, but it seemed OK so I installed it on the HDD.
Then I noticed that I could only have the screen in 800x600 so I clicked on the Hardware Drivers icon which recommended that I install the v185 driver. I downloaded it and activated it which needs a reboot.

Now the problem is that it starts to load after the reboot and then suddenly I see blue boxes all over the screen and it then goes black, HDD activity stops and I have waited several minutes - nothing.

I rebooted from the CD again as there seemed nothing else I could do and reinstalled UBUNTU.
I repeated the graphics update again, in case I had made a mistake, but no all I got was a black screen again.

Any suggestions?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CheckboxCommand: resolution_test
CheckboxDescription:
 This display is using the following resolution:

 $output

 Is this acceptable for your display?
CheckboxTest: resolution
Date: Thu Apr 29 12:55:46 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Pavilion dv9500 Notebook PC
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu7
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=831368c7-93b0-4ca5-a3d1-19c84294dda6 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.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
SourcePackage: xorg
Tags: checkbox-bug
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
XorgLogOld: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old'
dmi.bios.date: 11/12/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: F.33
dmi.board.name: 30CB
dmi.board.vendor: Quanta
dmi.board.version: 79.26
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Quanta
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvrF.33:bd11/12/2007:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPPaviliondv9500NotebookPC:pvrRev1:rvnQuanta:rn30CB:rvr79.26:cvnQuanta:ct10:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: HP Pavilion dv9500 Notebook PC
dmi.product.version: Rev 1
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
fglrx: Not loaded
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: i686kernel: 2.6.31-14-generic

[bugbot (bugbot)]

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

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.