After activation of NVIDIA restricted driver Asus ul50vg freezes with a black screen while booting.

[enaipi]

After installing the restricted Nvidia driver computer freezes at a black screen during the boot stage. There are two graphic cards inside: an integrated one and Nvidia G210M.
Maybe installing a newer driver downloaded directly from Nvidia could help but when I try to kill X
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
computer just freezes with some mismatched colours.
Windows can switch between those two cards. Maybe there could be a problem with Ubuntu?

Thank you in advance
Michal

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.33-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 3 09:50:34 2010
DkmsStatus:

InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. UL50Vg
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=9b6455b3-563c-4793-ab0b-f3618672395f ro splash quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
dmi.bios.date: 09/21/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 213
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: UL50Vg
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 1.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr213:bd09/21/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnUL50Vg:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnUL50Vg:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: UL50Vg
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: i686
 kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

Are you still affected by this bug? Please respond if you do.
PS: Please don't confirm your own bugs.

[enaipi (mipavelka)]

Yes, I am still affected. The black screen appears in the recovery mode as well.
Sorry for confirming the bug by myself.
Thanks for your reply

[Mohamed Amine Ilidrissi (ilidrissi.amine)]

Can you try the latest kernel mainline build? You can know how to test it here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/MainlineBuilds

[enaipi (mipavelka)]

Ok, I installed the 2.6.36-999 kernel. However, I was not able to install the current nvidia driver then. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/624473
Should I download the current driver from Nvidia website and try to install it manually?

[enaipi (mipavelka)]

Moreover, there remains an error after the attempt to install the current driver. When I tried sudo apt-get autoremove in order to remove the partly installed nvidia driver, an error occured:

Setting up nvidia-current (195.36.24-0ubuntu1~10.04) ...
Removing old nvidia-current-195.36.24 DKMS files...

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 195.36.24
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new nvidia-current-195.36.24 DKMS files...
First Installation: checking all kernels...
Building only for 2.6.36-999-generic
Building for architecture i686
Building initial module for 2.6.36-999-generic

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 2.6.36-999-generic (i686)
Consult the make.log in the build directory
/var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/195.36.24/build/ for more information.
dpkg: error processing nvidia-current (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 10
Processing triggers for python-gmenu ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/desktop.en_US.utf8.cache...
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-current
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Details are in the attachment.

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[Saurabh Gupta (bhaismachine)]

I can confirm this bug on my Lenovo y550 Ideapad laptop which has Nvidia Geforce GT130M graphics card. After installing Nvidia restricted drivers my system freezes during bootup with a blank screen (actually its purple screen!) . I am trying the latest Ubuntu 10.10 RC build. Just 3 days are left for final release and I fear that I won't be able to use the latest edition this time.

[Saurabh Gupta (bhaismachine)]

Got maverick up and running on my system with Nvidia restricted driver enabled. Had to downgrade Xorg and Nvidia-current to lucid and lock their versions using synaptic. Don't know if its reliable but the system is pretty stable without any visible performance hit. I hope the issue is resolved soon.

[enaipi (mipavelka)]

Nvidia seems to work nicely in Maverick.