Blank screen with the latest nv drivers

[Andris Sprūds]

Black screen is displayed when booting into X. I applied todays updates, then immediately rebooted. If I remember correctly, there was a new nv driver among the updates.

I am using Feisty Beta, my video card is an old NVIDIA GeForce2 400MX.

I would be delighted to provide any further information.

[mikkael (mikkael)]

same situation here. after the latest upgrades i can only get a running x server using "vesa", since im somehow not able to install nvidia-glx-legacy (my card ix 4400 ti)

[mikkael (mikkael)]

as requested on irc, here is the log. (xorg.conf was a fresh dpkg-reconfigured one, "nv" set as driver)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

it seems that the driver/server did indeed hang.. this is the last line from the log:

(==) NV(0): Write-combining range (0xd0000000,0x8000000)

We have a permission to a new driver version (2.0). When it is uploaded you can try again. In the meantime please use the nvidia-legacy driver.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

I'm a moron.. there really _was_ an update, and the driver you have is the 2.0-0ubuntu1. There is one fix for a possible hang, so I'll apply that one.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Please test xserver-xorg-video-nv-2.0-0ubuntu2 when it hits the archive.

[birdflesh (birdflesh)]

Just upgraded to xserver-xorg-video-nv-2.0-0ubuntu2 and I have the same behaviour. Currently and since the 2.0-0ubuntu1 upgrade only vesa works for me on a Geforce2 MX-400.

[mikkael (mikkael)]

i installed latest update too. synaptic says about the version:
1:2.0.0-0ubuntu2

at the moment i use a manually installed nvidia 9631.

so this is how i tested it:
-> sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and choose "nv"
-> edited linux-restricted-modules-common from "nv" to ""

result: same blackscreen, no response to ctrl+alt+f1 or ctrl+alt+backspace

attached the log of this boot-process

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Alright. The nv driver did _not_ have _any_ of the patches applied :) I just uploaded a new one, but you can get it here, too:

http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton/xorg72/new/xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb

please test and tell about the results.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

I have a geforce3, the same problem, and the fix didn't help.

[birdflesh (birdflesh)]

xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3 works again for me :)

[mikkael (mikkael)]

it works now. when this hits the mirrors it should solve problems for a lot of users..

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Thanks for testing!

gQuigs: please make sure you have the latest version (-0ubuntu3), and if it still won't work you can file another bug.

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

-0ubuntu3 works for me too

[Taz (taz-northernbloke)]

I had the same problem. I installed Feisty Beta, yesterday, 27 March 2007 and all worked fine. Then I applied the updates (92 at the time) and rebooted. When gdm should have started I just got a blank screen.

I have the nVidia GeForce4 Ti 4200. I checked my version...

# dpkg -l xserver-xorg-video-nv
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii xserver-xorg-video-nv 2.0.0-0ubuntu2 X.Org X server -- NV display driver

I tried an apt-get update at 08:40 CUT today, 28 March 2008. However, xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3 still hadn't hit the mirrors. So I got it from the URL above...

# wget http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton/xorg72/new/xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
--09:43:53-- http://users.tkk.fi/~tjaalton/xorg72/new/xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
           => `xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb'
Resolving users.tkk.fi... 130.233.240.8
Connecting to users.tkk.fi|130.233.240.8|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 74,642 (73K) [text/plain]

100%[======================================================================>] 74,642 344.01K/s

09:43:54 (343.82 KB/s) - `xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb' saved [74642/74642]

... and installed it...

# sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 103796 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xserver-xorg-video-nv 1:2.0.0-0ubuntu2 (using xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xserver-xorg-video-nv ...
Setting up xserver-xorg-video-nv (2.0.0-0ubuntu3) ...

Rebooted and all works fine.

Thanks ever so much for your hard work last night. I got frustrated and just hoped that a better man than myself would have the answer by the morning.... and they did!

Thanks.

[Bryan Quigley (bryanquigley)]

ubuntu3 fixes it here too.
Thanks!

[Luca Ferretti (elle.uca)]

A little OT question (maybe stuff for another bug): switching from nv to nvidia driver I used the "dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg" command.

It seems that this command resets the XkbLayout option to "us" instead the previous "it" - Italian keyboard layout - ingoring the system locale too.

Anybody with non-us layout noticed this?

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

luca: there's a bug open about it, you can find it by searching.

[Rideronthestorm07 (raiders112)]

Thanks Timo!

xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb

works pretty good for my geforce2 gts device

[Rideronthestorm07 (raiders112)]

whats was the problem with these packages??

xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu
xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu2

 why does they not work for me?? could be quiet interesting for future problems

thx

[Mark Carey (careym)]

xserver-xorg-video-nv_2.0.0-0ubuntu3_i386.deb works for me

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Rideonthestrorm07: because they didn't have the fix applied for this hang :)