nvidia restricted driver geforce4 MX440 montior fails at boot

[jtclicker]

Restricted driver for nvidia geforce mx440 causes the monitor to turn off at boot.
Hardy 8.04, Nvidia-glx 1:96.43.05+2.6.24.12-17.35

Xconf
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Defaultdepth 24
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "True"
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen "Default Screen"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

[Matthew Harrison (mpharrison)]

I get this with a geforce4 MX420 PCI card as well.
Get the initial boot graphics (ubuntu + progress bar) then blank.

Hardy 8.04, Nvidia-glx 1:96.43.05+2.6.24.13-19.44
All up to date 7-Jul-2008. same xconf.

[Ross Campbell (ross-campbell)]

I can confirm the same behavior on a Shuttle X SN41g2 system with an AMD XP2400+ processor, and the Nvidia chipset with an onboard MX420 - I tried nvidia-glx and nvidia-glx-legacy and eventually got so frustrated that I've switched to using the 'nv' driver.

System was running various NVidia drivers under Fedora Core 1 for many years, and I can confirm that I was able to use this exact graphics card with Nvidia closed source drivers with no problems.

I love nvidia graphics cards, but I hate their drivers. One great thing about Linux is that old drivers keep getting support updates and enhancements. I'd argue that Linux in general has better device driver support for older hardware than Windows.

If NVidia wants to have a closed source driver... well I can't stop them, but I wish that they would at least do us the favor of continuing to support all of their old cards in the *CURRENT* drivers. RIght now, we have 3 versions of closed source nvidia drivers - legacy, regular, and new. Just give us one driver and keep it all current. That was supposed to be what the Nvidia "UNIFIED" driver model was about, right?

[Solitaire (bill-s0l)]

@ jtclicker

Do you have a desktop or Laptop?
If you have laptop try the following change your xorg.conf

Change the following section:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

to

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection

First additional line forces the Drivers to display on the laptop screen instead of a CRT.
Second line fixes the "white screen" issue people are seeing with these drivers.

Then reboot. it should work now.

[jtclicker (lists-ya)]

I have a desktop.
Julian

-----Original Message-----
From: Solitaire <email address hidden>
Reply-To: Bug 226547 <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: [Bug 226547] Re: nvidia restricted driver geforce4 MX440
montior fails at boot
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 10:23:17 -0000

*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 251107 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251107

@ jtclicker

Do you have a desktop or Laptop?
If you have laptop try the following change your xorg.conf

Change the following section:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

to

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "DFP"
Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
EndSection

First additional line forces the Drivers to display on the laptop screen instead of a CRT.
Second line fixes the "white screen" issue people are seeing with these drivers.

Then reboot. it should work now.

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