Regular freeze on startup

[Aaron Peachey]

Binary package hint: xorg

Natty Alpha 1 with latest updates

Upon turning on the computer, it seems to regularly freeze at a black screen with a single blinking white cursor prior to coming to the Ubuntu splash screen.
A hard reset is required at this point after which it generally always loads normally (i.e it seems to always freeze on the first attempt to boot and then loads normally on the second attempt after hard reset)

Not sure if this is a problem in xorg but this seemed like the most logical startingpoint.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37
Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic i686
Architecture: i386
DRM.card0.LVDS.1:
 status: connected
 enabled: enabled
 dpms: On
 modes: 1280x800
 edid-base64: AP///////wANryUUAAAAAC0QAQOAHhN4Cp8FllZQiCcgUFQAAAABAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBvBsAoFAgFzAwIDYAL74QAAAYAAAA/gBOMTQxSTMtTDAyCiAgAAAA/gBDTU8KICAgICAgICAgAAAA/gBOMTQxSTMtTDAyCiAgAGQ=
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
 status: disconnected
 enabled: disabled
 dpms: Off
 modes:
 edid-base64:
Date: Sat Jan 22 08:08:59 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:14e2]
   Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:14e2]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Alpha i386 (20101202)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. A8Le
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LC_MESSAGES=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.37-12-generic root=UUID=ebab257e-76e9-458a-9c45-e17503a9b261 ro vt.handoff=7 quiet splash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
UnitySupportTest:

dmi.bios.date: 10/25/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 203
dmi.board.asset.tag: ATN12345678901234567
dmi.board.name: A8Le
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.:bvr203:bd10/25/2007:svnASUSTeKComputerInc.:pnA8Le:pvr1.0:rvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:rnA8Le:rvr1.0:cvnASUSTeKComputerInc.:ct10:cvr1.0:
dmi.product.name: A8Le
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.22-2ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.9+repack-1ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu8
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.13.2-1ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.13.901-2ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20100805+b96170a-0ubuntu1

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

No, X only comes into play *after* the splash screen, so any bugs prior to that are going to be kernel or plumbing layer issues.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

Hi Aaron,

If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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