no GUI with nvdia-304.123 on Lubuntu 14.10 beta1

[Henk Terhell]

Problem:
After updating the alpha version (which worked OK) to beta version of Lubuntu 14.10 I no longer could get the desktop interface, only a blank screen appeared after a second of flashing of Lubuntu 14.10 in the centre of the screen.
My desktop (Acer Aspire T-180 uses a Geoforce 6100 nForce 405 graphic card.
The default nouveau driver does provide a GUI but rapidly results in screen freeze, as happened with the earlier versions of Lubuntu, and is therefore of no use.
The older NVIDIA-173 on the list also gives screen freezes.

In another partition on the same device, Lubuntu 14.04 LTS operates some months already without any flaws with driver nvidia-304.117

From the blank screen after booting on nvidia-304.123 , alt-F2 shows the option to login in terminal mode and carry out update/upgrade. The system looks normal except for the absence of the GUI.

My conclusions:
(a) the absence of GUI appears to be caused by the driver nvidia-304.123
(b) none of the recommended video drivers on the list for Lubuntu 14.10 beta can be used on this Geforce 6100 card.

[Henk Terhell (hterhell)]

The upgrade received today has resolved this problem on my system.
Lubuntu 4.10 beta1 is doing allright now on driver nvidia 304.123.
My thanks to the team!

[Henk Terhell (hterhell)]

After upgrade of 2014-09-03, the GUI has disappeared again.
In recovery mode the message is shown:
inictl: Event failed

[Henk Terhell (hterhell)]

correction: initctl

[Henk Terhell (hterhell)]

screen dump after command startx attached

[Henk Terhell (hterhell)]

Daily build of 7 sept. results in terminal without GUI. Upgraded nvidia 304.123 but this had no effect. Startx results in a blank screen.

[Henk Terhell (hterhell)]

Included the proposed udev rule reported as rule 6 at #bug 1365336 as file /etc/udev/rules.d/71-nvidia.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="drm", KERNEL=="card[0-9]*", ATTRS{vendor}=="0x10de", DRIVERS=="nvidia", TAG+="master-of-seat"

After reboot no change. Startx results in a blank screen.

[Henk Terhell (hterhell)]

Latest upgrade has resulted in booting to GUI. Looks like this bug has been fixed.