nvidia binary locks up system with an NVIDIA 8400M GS card

[another2]

On a dell Inspiron 1420 with the nvidia 8400M GS, when installing the binary nvidia drivers my system display stopped working. I was able to boot into the recovery kernel though. I did a reinstall downloaded the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-100.14.09-pkg2.run file off of nvidia's site, downloaded and configured the kernel source, and had the nvidia software build the driver. This worked out well.

lspci:
lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0427 (rev a1)

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 100.14.09 Sat May 26 00:43:07 PDT 2007
GCC version: gcc version 4.1.3 20070718 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-14ubuntu1)

email me if you have any questions, thanks

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Thanks for your bug report.

another2:
I am not sure I follow. Are you saying that the Ubuntu packaged NVIDIA binary driver locked up your system whereas 100.14.09 from the NVIDIA website did not?

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Additionally, we need to know what version of Ubuntu you are running along with where and how you are installing the NVIDIA binary drivers. The 8400M GS does not supported by NVIDIA binary drivers shipped with Feisty (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia and ) so further clarification would be useful.

[another2 (another-two)]

I'm running Gusty, I'm trying to trace down issues I have. I had more
problems on Feisty so, I decided to go with the alpha release. It looks
like I'm experiencing two seperate issues, sound doesn't work and hardware
acceleration doesn't work either. I was able to install the nvidia binary
to correct the video problem but, I'm still at a loss with the sound issue
btw here is my lspci output:

root@anotherInspiron:/home/another2# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4
(rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5
(rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2
(rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio
Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port
1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port
2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port
4 (rev 02)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port
6 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1
(rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2
(rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3
(rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1
(rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile LPC Interface Controller (rev
02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA AHCI Controller (rev
02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0427
(rev a1)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0832 (rev 05)
03:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822
SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter
(rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation Unknown device 1713 (rev
02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4229 (rev 61)

On 7/21/07, Sitsofe Wheeler <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Additionally, we need to know what version of Ubuntu you are running
> along with where and how you are installing the NVIDIA binary drivers.
> The 8400M GS does not supported by NVIDIA binary drivers shipped with
> Feisty (see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/Nvidia
> and ) so further clarification would be useful.
>
> --
> nvidia binary locks up system
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127395
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscribe...

[another2 (another-two)]

I'm starting to get somewhere, my system is starting to work :)
The nvidia-glx, nvidia-glx-legacy , and nvidia-glx-new don't set up my nvidia card properly. Only having the kernel source build with options allows the driver to be built on my machine. I have attached the nvidia installer log. Please contact me if you have any more questions.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Support for the 8400M GS was only added to the nv driver a few weeks ago (see http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-nv.git;a=commit;h=d0d4e37accc697108e03c2ee7fdc0edf1f309620 ). Graphics cards that are "new" (less than 9 months old) tend to be poorly supported by already released Linux distributions (apart from Intel graphics cards as Intel release drivers for their cards BEFORE the hardware reaches retail)...

another2:
Bug reports can only be about a single issue. Is this about the lack of open source nv support for your card OR the lack of binary driver support? If this is about lack of binary driver support in Gutsy then this is effectively a duplicate of Bug #120943 .

(The sound problem is a separate issue again. I have a feeling that it is has already been filed in another bug report perhaps by yourself. If it wasn't you who filed it then it is probably a good idea to search launchpad for a recent bug to do with nvidia sound and add yourself to the subscriber list)

[another2 (another-two)]

nv works great, this is a lack of binary support. I didn't see it in the
list apparently.

On 7/22/07, Sitsofe Wheeler <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Support for the 8400M GS was only added to the nv driver a few weeks ago
> (see http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-
> nv.git;a=commit;h=d0d4e37accc697108e03c2ee7fdc0edf1f309620 ). Graphics
> cards that are "new" (less than 9 months old) tend to be poorly
> supported by already released Linux distributions (apart from Intel
> graphics cards as Intel release drivers for their cards BEFORE the
> hardware reaches retail)...
>
> another2:
> Bug reports can only be about a single issue. Is this about the lack of
> open source nv support for your card OR the lack of binary driver support?
> If this is about lack of binary driver support in Gutsy then this is
> effectively a duplicate of Bug #120943 .
>
> (The sound problem is a separate issue again. I have a feeling that it
> is has already been filed in another bug report perhaps by yourself. If
> it wasn't you who filed it then it is probably a good idea to search
> launchpad for a recent bug to do with nvidia sound and add yourself to
> the subscriber list)
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - nvidia binary locks up system
> + nvidia binary locks up system with an NVIDIA 8400M GS card
>
> --
> nvidia binary locks up system with an NVIDIA 8400M GS card
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127395
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

According to http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/100.14.11/README/appendix-a.html 100.14.11 (as you have mentioned) supports your card so this is effectively a request for 100.14.11 to be available. Closing as a duplicate of Bug #120943.

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug Bug #120943 and is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any information missing that you can add or to see if there is a work around. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.