Screen corruption on GeForce 6600 in vesa mode

[Ethan Bissett]

Due to a previously reported bug (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+bug/29975) I am unable to use the nv video driver from the Ubuntu Live CDs. Up until Edgy Knot 2 I've been able to get by just using the Safe Graphics mode on the Live CDs. However Edgy Knot 2 & 3 using vesa produce the same video distortions (green & yellow vertical lines) that occurs using the nv driver.

I went back and checked the official Ship-It Dapper CD and the desktop comes up fine using vesa. Using the binary nvidia driver works fine on my actual Dapper install.

The card is an eVGA GeForce 6600 LS AGP (256mb I think).

[Ethan Bissett (draimus-deactivatedaccount)]

Here's the lspci dump.

[Ethan Bissett (draimus-deactivatedaccount)]

I should also mention that switching to a text terminal just gets a screen of gray garbage.

[Ethan Bissett (draimus-deactivatedaccount)]

Still occurs with Edgy Beta 1.

[OrkanSpec (orkanspec)]

I confirm the problem with "safe graphics mode" in 6.10 beta amd64.
 I have an NVidia GF 6600 AGP graphics card, which does not work with "nv" driver. It works well with proprietary "nvidia" driver and "vesa".
 When booting 6.10 beta there is no difference to me between standard boot and "Start Kubuntu in safe graphics mode" - both the ways result in corrupted display (vertical lines). This "safe graphics mode" worked well in 6.06.

The display is also corrupted after switching to a console.

[Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount)]

I can also confirm this, can't get X at all thanks to bug #63796.

[Ethan Bissett (draimus-deactivatedaccount)]

Still an issue in edgy release.