Drivers don't work with Nvidia 8600MGT on Dell Laptop with Ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron

[Jdban]

I install the drivers on my Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop with an Nvidia 8600m GT, and when I reboot, the screen obviously is not working. Its a gray screen, but after about 5 minutes, a vertical black bar appears about midscreen, and everything else goes white. I do however hear sounds, so Ubuntu is indeed running. This is with Hardy Heron (8.04)
Once I uninstalled the driver again, I was able to boot and see everything successfully.

[Mitchellvs (migxvs)]

Dear jdban,

I am having the same problem with the Nvidia Driver. I also have a Dell Laptop (Vostro 1500) with Nvidia 8600m GT. When I try to enable the restricted driver, I get a blank screen with some lines and a wide bar in the middle. Obviously the same issue here.

I tried working around the Hardware Drivers application with EnvyNg but it it doesn't appear in the applications/system tools window.

I've about done everything to figure out the problem

[Jdban (jdban101)]

Yeah, I pretty much gave up on that months ago.
I don't know why nobody is trying to fix it, maybe since its just the 8600m
GT or something.
I've just been using the older driver that works without glitches, even
though its not a very good driver.

-Jason

On 8/25/08, Mitchellvs <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Dear jdban,
>
> I am having the same problem with the Nvidia Driver. I also have a Dell
> Laptop (Vostro 1500) with Nvidia 8600m GT. When I try to enable the
> restricted driver, I get a blank screen with some lines and a wide bar
> in the middle. Obviously the same issue here.
>
> I tried working around the Hardware Drivers application with EnvyNg but
> it it doesn't appear in the applications/system tools window.
>
> I've about done everything to figure out the problem
>
>
> --
> Drivers don't work with Nvidia 8600MGT on Dell Laptop with Ubuntu 8.04
> hardy heron
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230612
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Envy: Unofficial ATI and NVIDIA driver installer for Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> I install the drivers on my Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop with an Nvidia 8600m
> GT, and when I reboot, the screen obviously is not working. Its a gray
> screen, but after about 5 minutes, a vertical black bar appears about
> midscreen, and everything else goes white. I do however hear sounds, so
> Ubuntu is indeed running. This is with Hardy Heron (8.04)
> Once I uninstalled the driver again, I was able to boot and see everything
> successfully.
>

[Mitchellvs (migxvs)]

No I'm quite sure it isn't some bug with the 8600m gt cause a friend of mine
has almost the same config with the same nvidia card and it works on his
laptop. So really confusing

do the effects work with the old driver? haven't tried that yet i guess

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From: "Jdban" <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 7:48 PM
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Bug 230612] Re: Drivers don't work with Nvidia 8600MGT on
DellLaptop with Ubuntu 8.04 hardy heron

> Yeah, I pretty much gave up on that months ago.
> I don't know why nobody is trying to fix it, maybe since its just the
> 8600m
> GT or something.
> I've just been using the older driver that works without glitches, even
> though its not a very good driver.
>
> -Jason
>
> On 8/25/08, Mitchellvs <email address hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Dear jdban,
>>
>> I am having the same problem with the Nvidia Driver. I also have a Dell
>> Laptop (Vostro 1500) with Nvidia 8600m GT. When I try to enable the
>> restricted driver, I get a blank screen with some lines and a wide bar
>> in the middle. Obviously the same issue here.
>>
>> I tried working around the Hardware Drivers application with EnvyNg but
>> it it doesn't appear in the applications/system tools window.
>>
>> I've about done everything to figure out the problem
>>
>>
>> --
>> Drivers don't work with Nvidia 8600MGT on Dell Laptop with Ubuntu 8.04
>> hardy heron
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230612
>> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
>> of the bug.
>>
>> Status in Envy: Unofficial ATI and NVIDIA driver installer for Ubuntu:
>> New
>>
>> Bug description:
>> I install the drivers on my Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop with an Nvidia
>> 8600m
>> GT, and when I reboot, the screen obviously is not working. Its a gray
>> screen, but after about 5 minutes, a vertical black bar appears about
>> midscreen, and everything else goes white. I do however hear sounds, so
>> Ubuntu is indeed running. This is with Hardy Heron (8.04)
>> Once I uninstalled the driver again, I was able to boot and see
>> everything
>> successfully.
>>
>
> --
> Drivers don't work with Nvidia 8600MGT on Dell Laptop with Ubuntu 8.04
> hardy heron
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/230612
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in Envy: Unofficial ATI and NVIDIA driver installer for Ubuntu: New
>
> Bug description:
> I install the drivers on my Dell Inspiron 1520 Laptop with an Nvidia 8600m
> GT, and when I reboot, the screen obviously is not working. Its a gray
> screen, but after about 5 minutes, a vertical black bar appears about
> midscreen, and everything else goes white. I do however hear sounds, so
> Ubuntu is indeed running. This is with Hardy Heron (8.04)
> Once I uninstalled the driver again, I was able to boot and see everything
> successfully.
>

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Did you ask NVIDIA about this problem?
http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

[Faulk28 (bob-marietta)]

I experienced a similar problem: I tried to install the nVidia drivers on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid. When I rebooted the system, I got a black screen. What I found was that the drivers installed correctly but the xorg.conf configuration file wasn't updated. Apparently the black screen results from incompatible resolution or lack of proper configuration. Once I updated the conf file using recommendations found in the forums it worked fine.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

[bugbot (bugbot)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.