ubuntu 10.10 beta live CD has major graphical glitches on ASUS G60JX

[Troy Cotter]

I currently have Kubuntu 10.04.1 on my ASUS G60JX laptop and everything works fine, but when I try booting the live CD of the beta it goes to splash screen, and then my screen gets all sorts of screwed up, sometimes I'll see images from my desktop on Kubuntu before I rebooted, stuff like that. The only way I can boot to the live desktop is by using the nomodeset option which makes me believe that this is probably related to the nvidia drivers, my laptop has a NVIDIA GEFORCE GTS 360M

Sorry I can't be more descriptive

[Peter Bandi (peter.bandi)]

I have a different notebook (ASUS G51J) with the same video card: nVidia GeForce GTS 360M. I have also tried the Ubuntu 10.10 beta live CD with the same result. I guess it shows some memory junk.

It looks me as if the nVidia driver used by the live CD and by default by the installed system didn't like the 360M. However if you add the xforcevesa kernel parameter before you start to install or try the system it will not crash. On the first boot choose the Recovery mode option in Grub and then select Failsafe X and start with installing the proprietary nVidia driver.

Anyway it would be nice if the Installer just worked fine. It is probably a bug in the nouveau driver.

[ASULutzy (ryan-lutz)]

Confirming this bug occurring on my ASUS laptop with a GTS 360m, same results. The nouveau driver seems to be hosed up even in the RC.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. Since you reported this against a development version of KUbuntu Maverick, we are closing this report. If this can be reproduced using the latest development version of Kubuntu or Ubuntu Maverick, please comment and change the status to 'new' in the yellow line. Thanks again!

[Charlie Kravetz (cjkgeek)]

Oops, my mistake. I apologize for the bad comment above. Please test this using the latest final release of Maverick Meerkat.