Comment 14 for bug 661235

I bought a new graphics adaptor to replace my old ATI one. The model I chose is a Gainward GeForce 210 1024MB DDR2 HDMI.

Upon installing the new adaptor my Ubuntu 10.10 64bit system froze on reboot. I tried booting from the 64 and 32 bit CDs always producing the same result - freezing.

After changing the grub command line options to "nouveau.blacklist=1" (as suggested somewhere on the web) I could boot my system and install the NVIDIA driver instead which works fine, however, I no longer get a bootsplash. Consecutively I made it a default in /etc/default/grub to keep my system from freezing.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nouveau.blacklist=1"

I did an lspic -vv, maybe it helps:

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: CardExpert Technology Device 1401
 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
 Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
 Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
 Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
 Region 1: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
 Region 3: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
 Region 5: I/O ports at 9000 [size=128]
 Expansion ROM at d1000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
 Capabilities: <access denied>
 Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

Anyway, I thought I might report this bug as a frozen system might be a real showstopper for any Linux newbies. I'd be grateful, if anybody could look into this.