ubuntu natty beta nvidia regression - maximize white hang
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xorg
A fresh install of ubuntu beta from the amd64 daily CD of 20110408 has nvidia display issues on a Dell inspiron 531.
The ubuntu-bug attached files are from a parallel 10.10 install, and should only be used for illustrating the hardware situation.
The symptom is completely reproducible: boot kernel 2.6.38-8-generic amd64 with the binary nvidia driver, launch a process such as gnome-terminal or firefox, maximize the window. The screen goes to solid white. Un-maximizing reverts to a normal display. After 2-3 maximize/
Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then Ctrl-Alt-Del results in the expected switch to a terminal and a reboot, so the keyboard is still responsive.
This only happens with the binary nvidia driver, not with the open-source nouveau driver. However, the nouveau driver lacks the acceleration needed to run the new unity interface.
This is the same hardware (Dell inspiron system unit, HP LCD display) as in bug #757929, but a different problem.
(That bug is a kernel oops after a 10.10 -> 11.04 upgrade; this problem is a display freeze from a fresh 11.04 install.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: xorg 1:7.5+6ubuntu3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 64b3b7d0e020097
CheckboxSystem: 2a6f54df59af338
DRM.card0.VGA.1:
status: connected
enabled: enabled
dpms: On
modes: 1920x1200 1600x1200 1680x1050 1600x1000 1280x1024 1440x900 1280x960 1152x864 1280x720 1024x768 1024x768 832x624 800x600 800x600 640x480 640x480 720x400
edid-base64: AP/////
Date: Mon Apr 11 14:56:08 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Inspiron 531s
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
Title: Xorg freeze
dmi.bios.date: 02/09/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.0.13
dmi.board.name: 0RY206
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: ���
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.
dmi.product.name: Inspiron 531s
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: maverick
architecture: x86_64
kernel: 2.6.35-28-generic
affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) |
tags: | added: natty |
I ran a fresh install of the ubuntu amd64 20110414 daily build, and the situation for beta2 is similar to beta1.
* Nouveau driver seems to work OK, classic gnome interface only, as its unaccelerated
* nvidia driver has issues on this Dell Inspiron 530 with the nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (C61) chip.
The current behavior is:
* most application windows draw as solid white
* gnome terminal is readable ordinary size, but solid white maximized
* firefox windows are solid white, both ordinary and maximized. However, if I use Alt-D to type url stuff, the search completion overlay is visible, while the main page canvas remains solid white
* 5 minutes of opening and closing apps and maximizing and minimizing windows didn't produce a lockup
So it improved, but not to the point of being usable. If anyone wants particular log files or experiments, please ask. syslog, kern.log, Xorg.0. log}.
There are no exciting error messages obvious in /var/log{