[nouveau] [Nvidia C61] Ubuntu desktop screen and whole app screen started corrupting the display, I can't see the letters & display properly.

[Sreekar Sucheth]

(1)Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
   Release: 20.04

(2)Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS

(3)I expected that after dual booting Ubuntu OS will be working properly and the display will be amazing.Simultaneously my Windows 10 OS was working perfectly.

(4)But what happened is my Ubuntu desktop screen and whole app screen started corrupting the display, I cant see the letters & display properly.When i am opening the application like Mozilla Firefox, terminal window, etc;then there is not corrupting. when I am logging into Ubuntu OS the Login Screen also corrupts.

        Please do something about this issue.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.11.0-37.41~20.04.2-generic 5.11.22
Uname: Linux 5.11.0-37-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.20
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Mon Oct 18 10:06:34 2021
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: focal
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] [10de:03d6] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a] [1458:d000]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-10-17 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819)
Lsusb:
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 004: ID 8086:0808 Intel Corp. USB PnP Sound Device
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:00cb Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse v2.0
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. M68MT-S2
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_IN:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.11.0-37-generic root=UUID=19032621-4455-41db-85e6-c10e0d5b345e ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 11/15/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F1
dmi.board.name: M68MT-S2
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF1:bd11/15/2010:svnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:pnM68MT-S2:pvr:sku:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnM68MT-S2:rvr:cvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:ct3:cvr:
dmi.product.name: M68MT-S2
dmi.sys.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.105-3~20.04.2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 21.0.3-0ubuntu0.3~20.04.3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.11-1ubuntu1~20.04.2
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:19.1.0-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20200226-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.16-1

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It appears this is a bug in the 'nouveau' driver. In most cases we would recommend using the proprietary Nvidia driver instead, but for this particular GPU that requires Nvidia driver version 304 which Ubuntu doesn't ship anymore (usually because of limited support for particular kernel versions by Nvidia).

The only suggestions I have are:

  * Use slow software graphics by adding a kernel boot parameter: 'nomodeset'; or

  * Use Ubuntu 16.04 on this machine (https://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/), where the nvidia-304 driver is still supported; or

  * [EXPERT] Install an older kernel like v4.4 and then you should be able to manually install https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/123709/en-us or

  * Use Windows only.

I suggest the simplest solution for using Ubuntu on this machine is to install https://releases.ubuntu.com/16.04/

[Ubuntu Kernel Bot (ubuntu-kernel-bot)]

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