Comment 5 for bug 364551

I believe that it is the driver for the nvdia card. Basically the driver was
not gaurenteed to work with x v1.5+. It did work and does with 8.10 but 9.04
moved to X version 1.6.

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Dan Packard <email address hidden> wrote:

> Similar problem with my Toshiba Satellite 1135-S155 laptop. Initial
> live cd boot to first dialog window works (showing install options), but
> after selecting a normal install, or a live cd install, Ubuntu and
> Kubuntu 9.04 freezes with black screen and blinking cursor. Rebooted
> and commented out the quiet boot line and see the install stopping at
> the "pci bridge" point (this is just a couple of seconds after the
> installer starts).
>
> Rebooted the laptop and to get the installer to work correctly, had to
> select the three acpi off and no apic, no lapic options under "F6".
> This problem occurs with no external devices (like pcmcia card) attached
> to the laptop. Consequently with this no apic/acpi setup, the laptop
> never shuts down correctly and also getting random display corruption
> (squares of black hash marks) on screen.
>
> Attached is text of lscpci -vvv for this Toshiba 1135 laptop while
> running Kubuntu 9.04.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Toshiba 1135 - lscpi print out.txt"
>
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27704613/Toshiba%201135%20-%20lscpi%20print%20out.txt
>
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> 9.04 fails Toshiba 1135-s125
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364551
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>
> Status in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> When upgrading from 8.10 to 9.04 beta, the Toshiba 1135-s125 fails. It
> seems like that the process is smooth until reboot. Bug is confirmed when
> attempting to run the live CD from beta 9.04. Machine boots up past grub,
> and gets to the stage where one would run the window manager. At that point
> one receives a blinking cursor and no interaction seems to reset the machine
> (sans rebooting). Highest level of Nvidia driver that the laptop supports is
> 96.
>

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Thank you,

Steve Battista
(703) 939-1417