Compaq Presario F500 nvidia problem in Hardy

[cgonzalez]

Hi

I think some thing got broken in hardy, i have two notebooks compaq presario F500 MODEL F64LA

they are the same model but in the bios they show two different uuid (i don't know what it mean)

GN282LA#ABM
GN282LA#30D3

The proprietary nvidia (nvidia-glx-new) driver was working fine in 7.04 and 7.10. But 8.04 beta it show graphics corruption when
switching to console (crtl-alt-f1 ...) and when shutting down X. The corruption appears only after when the nvidia drivers are loaded-

Sometimes if you switch back to X, the systems just hangs. i have to power off the computer.

When i tried to use vga=792 (and other different modes) other strange things happends, firstly they show the ubuntu logo but not in the center off screen, the logo was in the upper left corner, and when switching to console no characters was visible, just a blank screen with the flashing cursor. The cursor moves normally i can type text and the console seems to be working.

here's my lspci of my work computer, if you need further information, just ask me.

00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:00.6 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.7 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:02.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:03.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation C51 PCI Express Bridge (rev a1)
00:05.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI-X GeForce Go 6100 (rev a2)
00:09.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Host Bridge (rev a2)
00:0a.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 LPC Bridge (rev a3)
00:0a.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation MCP51 SMBus (rev a3)
00:0a.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PMU (rev a3)
00:0b.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP51 USB Controller (rev a3)
00:0d.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 IDE (rev f1)
00:0e.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Serial ATA Controller (rev f1)
00:10.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
00:10.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP51 High Definition Audio (rev a2)
00:14.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)

[hpdaterrible (phamhm)]

I have the exact same laptop. My system hangs sometimes as well and i suspected its the nvidia driver. After a fresh install without installing the driver from restricted driver, I haven't suffered any freezes yet. However, without the accelerated driver, the graphic is kind of laggy.

[Gary (theironyofitall)]

Hardy Nvidia X problem solution

I had this with all the symptoms (on 5500 with two std lcds.

Problem is Nvidia driver in repos is not solid esp with 2 screens detected

Solution - use driver from Nvidia archive
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_173.08.html

gary

www.theclearboxstore.co.uk

[cgonzalez (cmgonzalez)]

Ok

I solved IT, installing the latest drivers won't work either....

i have to roll back to the 100.14.19 drivers, these seems to be working fine, no garbled consoles (i don't have a system hangs yet either)

firstly uninistall the ubuntu nvidia driver in the restricted hardware app...

the follow this guide to clean the system( http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490 )

If you wish to install the NVIDIA Linux graphics driver on a Debian GNU/Linux or Ubuntu system that ships with Xorg 7.x, please ensure that your system meets the following requirements:

    * development tools like make and gcc are installed
    * the linux-headers package matching the installed Linux kernel is installed
    * the pkg-config and xserver-xorg-dev packages are installed
    * the nvidia-glx package has been uninstalled with the --purge option and the files /etc/init.d/nvidia-glx and /etc/init.d/nvidia-kernel do not exist

If you use Ubuntu, please also ensure that the linux-restricted-modules or linux-restricted-modules-common packages have been uninstalled. Alternatively, you can edit the /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules or /etc/default/linux-restricted-modules-common configuration file and disable the NVIDIA linux-restricted kernel modules (nvidia, nvidia_legacy) via:

    DISABLED_MODULES="nv nvidia_new"

Additionally, delete the following file if it exists:

    /lib/linux-restricted-modules/.nvidia_new_installed

Now donwload this drivers set (http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_100.14.19.html)

go to the console (crtl-alt-f1)

stop gdm
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop

go to the driver download folder, and do

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.19-pkg1.run

don't donwload the kernel modules, compile it ... reboot and Voila

another nvidia nightmare solved for me....

[cgonzalez (cmgonzalez)]

Well using the 100.14.19 version solved the problem.... it NVIDIA fault (Again)

[oddchild (theoddchild)]

This bug has been around since the beta. Everytime I enable the card, . . Same thing

Compaq Presario F500. If this wasn't a long term release i would haev rolled back already.

[samuraiCat (tony-jeswald)]

Hi, I have this same problem on the same laptop. I followed cgonzalez's instructions, but I think I'm missing something. I followed these instructions exactly, but the new driver does not appear to be running yet. I thought I screwed it up, but when I followed the instructions a second time, I received a message saying "Driver 100.blah.blah is currently installed. Do you want to reinstall?" I reinstalled anyway, but still nothing.

Here's my question: How do I get this old driver to work? Since this wasn't from the repos, do I need to add "nvida" into my xorg.conf file manually?

[samuraiCat (tony-jeswald)]

Duh! I added "Driver "nvidia"" to xorg.conf, and it worked.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

Can you reproduce this in a newer Ubuntu version? Thank you for testing!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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