10de:0409 unreadable text in virtual terminals with nvidia binary driver on lucid

[Joe Niski]

Binary package hint: xorg

my Sager 5791 laptop and Nvidia GeForce 8700M GT card have worked without problems from Hardy through Karmic. With a clean install of Lucid and the Nvidia binary driver from the distribution (Hardware Info says "version current"), text is completely unreadable in virtual terminals - i looks like randomly-colored blocks. Display in Gnome, with and without Compiz, is fine. The problem also occurs with the version 173 driver.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 6 15:55:15 2010
DkmsStatus:
 vboxnetadp, 3.2.2, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
 nvidia-current, 195.36.15, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxnetflt, 3.2.2, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
 vboxdrv, 3.2.2, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
 nvidia-173, 173.14.22, 2.6.32-22-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
MachineType: Clevo Co. M570RU
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=e01a3d5b-26b3-47b2-af59-f279df5ac3f5 ro vga=775 splash quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 10/26/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix
dmi.bios.version: SROSA001.86C.
dmi.board.name: SANTA ROSA CRB
dmi.board.vendor: Clevo Co.
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: No Enclosure
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenix:bvrSROSA001.86C.:bd10/26/2007:svnClevoCo.:pnM570RU:pvrCLEVOM570RU-1.00.04SL:rvnClevoCo.:rnSANTAROSACRB:rvrNotApplicable:cvnNoEnclosure:ct1:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: M570RU
dmi.product.version: CLEVO:M570RU-1.00.04SL
dmi.sys.vendor: Clevo Co.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-22-generic

[Joe Niski (joeniski)]

Apparently this was a problem with my Grub2 configuration , caused by installing StartupManager, which set the "GRUB_GFXMODE" parameter in /etc/default/grub. Commenting that line and running update-grub took care of the problem.

[Walter Ribeiro (wribeirojr)]

This bug appears to be related to bug 568492, probably it is a duplicate.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Joe Niski, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Lucid reaches EOL on May 9, 2013.
Please see this document for currently supported Ubuntu releases:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

We were wondering if this is still an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

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

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Thank you for your understanding.

Helpful bug reporting tips:
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[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since there has not been a response from the original reporter. However, the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. If you're not the original reporter, we'd prefer you file a new bug report.

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