Natty: Cannot boot with proprietary NVIDIA driver for GeForce 8800 GT.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I try to test Ubuntu 11.04 with Nvidia's proprietary [Recommended] driver.
After restart the splash screen (with Ubuntu logo) simply freezes. It never comes to Unity or GNOME desktop.
This computer has NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] graphics card.
1) I have downloaded Natty daily and installed it from a USB-pen drive.
$ uname -a
Linux natty64 2.6.38-7-generic #35-Ubuntu SMP Tue Mar 15 21:33:06 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
2) Activated the "NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended]" in the Additional Drivers dialog. The installation completes OK and I reboot the computer.
$ dpkg -l | grep -i nvidia
ii nvidia-common 0.2.28 Find obsolete NVIDIA drivers
ii nvidia-current 270.30-0ubuntu1 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library
ii nvidia-settings 270.29-0ubuntu1 Tool of configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
3) Ubuntu freezes during reboot.
The screen shows a Ubuntu-logo with some dots. It never comes to the desktop.
$ lspci -vv | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 8261
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
i have the same problem with nvidia driver. while updating nvidia-current from 270.29 there was a problem:
Setting up nvidia-current (270.30-0ubuntu3) ... alternatives: using /usr/lib/ nvidia- current/ ld.so.conf to provide /etc/ld. so.conf. d/GL.conf (gl_conf) in auto mode. alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/ vdpau/libvdpau_ nvidia. so.1 because associated file /usr/lib32/ nvidia- current/ vdpau/libvdpau_ nvidia. so.1 (of link group gl_conf) doesn't exist. alternatives: warning: skip creation of /usr/lib32/ libvdpau_ nvidia. so because associated file /usr/lib32/ nvidia- current/ vdpau/libvdpau_ nvidia. so (of link group gl_conf) doesn't exist.
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