maverick - X or kdm freezes after boot nVidia Geforce 7050

[xteejx]

Binary package hint: xorg

I can only provide info from a working install of Kubuntu 10.04, since 10.10 is pretty much unusable, had to reinstall Lucid to be able to send any kind of report, since w3m (text-based web browser) does not allow me to login in Launchpad.

X or kdm completely freezes after booting 10.10. All updates 12th September - I chose to install all available updates during install.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+5ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.42-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 14 21:10:11 2010
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.24, 2.6.32-24-generic, x86_64: installed
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.2)
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 062a:0000 Creative Labs Optical mouse
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp. 8-in-1 Media Card Reader
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: ACER Aspire M1640
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-24-generic root=UUID=b2208ece-e9cc-4a09-810b-f7c303773f53 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
dmi.bios.date: 06/20/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: R22-B2
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MCP73VE
dmi.board.vendor: ACER
dmi.board.version: NVIDIA MCP73
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrR22-B2:bd06/20/2008:svnACER:pnAspireM1640:pvrR22-B2:rvnACER:rnMCP73VE:rvrNVIDIAMCP73:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: Aspire M1640
dmi.product.version: R22-B2
dmi.sys.vendor: ACER
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucid
 architecture: x86_64
 kernel: 2.6.32-24-generic

[Dominique Lebrun (dom-lochet)]

Same kind of problem here:
Whether I try to install Kubuntu 10.10 RC (Ubiquity installer) or just to test it with the live CD, the system freezes. By freezing, I mean:
- no refresh of the screen
- keyboard not responding (even the "NumLock" key)
- mouse pointer still movable, but click doesn't work
The only thing left to do is to hit the reset button of my computer.
Actually, I've experienced the same problem with versions 10.04 and 10.04.1.
I suspect this could have something to do with the nouveau driver.
My computer has an Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU and a NVidia GeForce 6600GT graphic card.

[eraserix (eraserix)]

For me, everything worked fine on 10.04. Since I upgraded to 10.10, the desktop freezes regularly on my laptop. Only thing that works after that is pressing the power button for about 4s to switch power off.

I'm also using nvidia drivers (nvidia-current 260.19.06-0ubuntu1) with a Quadro FX 770M.

[xteejx (xteejx)]

Closing this bug report, since the problem seems to have resolved itself (probably with updates).