HP 8560w does not boot (NVIDIA driver)

[Jens]

This also happens on 12.04 beta2 as of 2012.04.24.

Booting into the live CD will freeze the system.

WORKAROUND: Booting with "nomodeset" as boot parameter will succeed, but limit the display resolution to 800x600.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: linux-image-2.6.38-10-generic 2.6.38-10.46~lucid1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-10.46~lucid1-generic 2.6.38.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-10-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 26 15:58:10 2012
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20110211.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: linux-lts-backport-natty

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Jens, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. If you could also please test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text.

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream'.

Please let us know your results. Thanks in advance.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.