Nvidia GT240 screen corruption after boot

[Nukam]

I am currently running Win7 and want to dual boot Ubuntu 10.10 on my computer I am currently running AMD Phenom II X4 940 Processor at 3.0 Ghz, 6gigs of ram, and have a Nvidia GT240.

My issue is that when I boot from the disc I get up to the Ubuntu loading screen and then it shows my background all scrambled and nothing happens, I cant do anything, no windows pop up at all. Is this and issue with my computer or with the disc, or maybe im missing something necessary. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

EDIT: Visual Addition
Booting through the disc, which brings me here:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Yoyomega/0114111510.jpg

After that screen:
http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g139/Yoyomega/0114111510a.jpg

[Martin Beeger (martin-beeger)]

In my case, the fan of the video card is simply not running, so it turns off after some time to prevent dying because of overheating.
This could also be your problem.

[Andrius Štikonas (stikonas)]

Created attachment 51753
dmesg log

Nvidia GTA 240 card (NVA3) locks up at the very beginning of the boot process.
Kernel is booted with vga=0 parameter but it doesn't affect lock up.

You can see in dmesg log:
[ 2.410505] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: GPU lockup - switching to software fbcon

[Andrius Štikonas (stikonas)]

Created attachment 51754
dmesg log with nouveau.force_post=1

[Patmandin (patmandin)]

Adding 'nouveau.vram_pushbuf=1' to kernel parameters help a bit for my NVA5, but it's till far from perfect: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39988

Maybe you should try.

[Andrius Štikonas (stikonas)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Adding 'nouveau.vram_pushbuf=1' to kernel parameters help a bit for my NVA5,
> but it's till far from perfect:
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39988
>
> Maybe you should try.

Unfortunately, 'nouveau.vram_pushbuf=1' doesn't help at all. The lockup is still there.

[Andrius Štikonas (stikonas)]

Created attachment 54467
dmesg with drm.debug=14

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[greg (grigorig)]

I'm affected by this, too. Basically, any acceleration seems to be problematic on NVA3 chips. Passing nouveau.noaccel=1 to kernel fixes this: booting works normally, albeit X is unaccelerated.

[greg (grigorig)]

This patch disables acceleration completely for certain known chipsets. This is not ideal, but certainly better than an unusuable, crashing system.

[greg (grigorig)]

This patch disables acceleration completely for certain known chipsets. This is not ideal, but certainly better than an unusuable, crashing system.

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[Andrius Štikonas (stikonas)]

I've tested this again with current freedesktop.org git kernel and this card still locks up at boot.

[Joseph Salisbury (jsalisbury)]

Can you provide some information on the status of the patch with regards to getting it merged upstream? Has it been sent upstream, what sort of feedback has it received, is it getting applied to a subsystem maintainer's tree, etc?

People affected by this bug are probably wondering why the kernel team doesn't just apply the patch and fix it. The reason is that the kernel team is reluctant (not opposed) to apply any patch to a stable kernel that is not from upstream. Applying patches that don't come from upstream add greatly to the support of the kernel as other upstream patches may touch the same area as the non-upstream patch and may prevent them from applying cleanly.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

@Nukam, @Ben,

This bug was filed over a year ago and the attached patched is from 1.5 years ago. Can you please verify that this is still an issue for you and let us know? Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[Emil-l-velikov (emil-l-velikov)]

*** Bug 50043 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[greg (grigorig)]

This is definitely still an issue. There are multiple bug reports about this upstream, but nobody cared about them.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Greg - Support for Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" has ended. Maverick's 2.6.35 kernel might also be too old to contain support for the GT240.

If this issue is still occurring on Ubuntu 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" please file a new bug.

[Cybjit (cybjit)]

Still a problem on my GT240. I get screen corruption when X starts up. The card is fanless.

Ubuntu 13.04

linux: 9816a78 drm/nouveau/devinit: ensure legacy vga control is enabled during post

drm: 303ca37 radeon: Fix 1D tiling layout on SI.

xf86-video-nouveau: 8f934fa bump to 1.0.6

[Cybjit (cybjit)]

Created attachment 73304
dmesg gt240 3.8.0-rc3+

[Cybjit (cybjit)]

Created attachment 73305
Xorg.0.log gt240 3.8.0-rc3+

[Cybjit (cybjit)]

Created attachment 73306
GT240 bios

[Cybjit (cybjit)]

There are already quite a few bugs open regarding GT 240, I do not think opening another one would be helpful.
(list at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33165)

Upstream seems unresponsive, I do not think this will be solved anytime soon.

Attaching updated patch disabling acceleration.

[greg (grigorig)]

This is still a problem with 13.04.

Please just apply the patch. This problem is well documented and while upstream is unresponsive the patch is known to fix this. I hope Ubuntu developers know how frustrating this has been. It is a critical bug (the system won't even boot properly), there is a simple and known working fix available, yet nothing ever happens.

[Cybjit (cybjit)]

Just checked and confirmed that this is still a problem on 3.8.0-19-generic

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Nukam, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

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[Ilia Mirkin (imirkin)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 33165 ***

[Cybjit (cybjit)]

Still shows corruption and locks up on latest saucy kernel.
nouveau.noaccel=1 still allows boot.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

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[Ken VanDine (ken-vandine)]

Closed, 13.04 is longer supported