Ubuntu fails to boot with nVidia proprietary driver
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
After installing the proprietary nvidia driver in Ubuntu Natty (32bit and 64bit tested) and rebooting, the system freezes before reaching the login screen. The system can boot fine using the nouveau package, but as soon as nvidia-current is installed the system crashes. Trying to switch to a tty doesn't work, the only way to reboot after this is to use the magic sysrq combination, and then boot into text mode to remove the nvidia-current driver.
The card in my machine is:
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9300 / nForce 730i] (rev b1)
The driver version I installed, both on 32 and 64bit systems is 270.41.06-0ubuntu1.
matthew@
Description: Ubuntu 11.04
Release: 11.04
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Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/
CompositorRunning: kwin
DRM.card0.DP.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.HDMI.A.1:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.HDMI.A.2:
status: disconnected
enabled: disabled
dpms: Off
modes:
edid-base64:
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1920x1080 1280x1024 1440x900 1280x800 1152x864 1024x768 1024x768 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 720x400
edid-base64: AP/////
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: natty
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
DistroVariant: kubuntu
GraphicsCard:
nVidia Corporation C79 [GeForce 9300 / nForce 730i] [10de:086c] (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:cb79]
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta amd64 (20110413)
MachineType: NVIDIA MCP7A
Package: nvidia-
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcVersionSign
Renderer: Unknown
Tags: natty kubuntu patch
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
dmi.bios.date: 02/02/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: MCP7A
dmi.board.vendor: NVIDIA
dmi.board.version: 2
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: NVIDIA
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixT
dmi.product.name: MCP7A
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: NVIDIA
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu13
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
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Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
This problem still persists after yesterdays release so I can't upgrade to Natty at this time without losing support for my nVidia card. What extra information do I need to give?
I've done some more messing about to see if I can fix the problem. I added the x-swat ppa to my Maverick system to see if the problem exists in Maverick with the latests driver and I got the same result when upgrading the nvidia-current driver: The xserver crashes and the system is completely unresponsive after the driver is loaded. I looked at the latest changelog for the driver which is installed in Natty http:// www.nvidia. com/object/ linux-display- amd64-270. 41.06-driver. html and it says:
Fixed a bug that caused some GPUs to stop responding when the X Server was started. All GPUs are susceptible, but the failure was primarily seen on GF104 and GF106 boards.
This sounds like the problem I am having, but the driver doesn't fix the bug for me?!
I'd really like to use Natty, so any help is appreciated.
Cheers,
Matt