Can't Boot into natty after installing nvidia driver

[Venkatram Tummala]

Version : Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Beta2
Hardware : Dell T110 Server, Geforce 7200GS Graphics Card

I installed Ubuntu 11.04 Beta2 without the "download updates while installing" option. I could then boot into natty. Then i installed nvidia Proprietary Driver (Version 173) using "Install Additional Drivers" . I then did a reboot and i just a blank screen. I can't boot into natty anymore. I did a clean install 2-3 times using different CD's but the result is the same.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello
Can you please use the recomended or experimental (nouveau) driver
Thanks
Fabio

[Venkatram Tummala (venkatram867)]

Hi Fabio,

I tried both the recommended & the experimental driver . Neither of them works.

I did a clean install without the "download updates while installing option". Then i could boot into natty . I installed the Recommended nvidia driver and restarted. Now, i could boot into natty but nvidia driver was not in use. "Additional h/w drivers" indicated that "the proprietary driver is activated but not in use". When i ran nvida xserver settings GUI, it said "nvidia drivers are not in use. Run nvidia-xconfig as root & reboot".

I ran nvidia-xconfig as root & rebooted. Now, its the same blank screen again. Luckily I installed sshd before installing the nvidia drivers. So i can ssh into the box but i dont see anything on the screen.

' dmesg' shows the following messages (This is with the recommended nvidia driver)

[ 11.039476] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[ 11.039482] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[ 11.470857] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 11.470865] NVRM: This PCI I/O region assigned to your NVIDIA device is invalid:
[ 11.470867] NVRM: BAR1 is 0M @ 0x0 (PCI:0000:01:00.0)
[ 11.470870] NVRM: The system BIOS may have misconfigured your GPU.
[ 11.470879] nvidia: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -1
[ 11.470909] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
[ 11.470912] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA graphics adapters were initialized!
.........
[ 11.649200] vesafb: cannot reserve video memory at 0xa0000000
[ 11.649210] vesafb: abort, cannot ioremap video memory 0x500000 @ 0xa0000000
[ 11.649215] Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000000a0000000-00000000a04fffff>
[ 11.649222] vesafb: probe of vesafb.0 failed with error -5.

I have also attached the xorg.conf with this bug

[Venkatram Tummala (venkatram867)]

Adding acpi=off solves the problem partially. Now, i dont get a blank screen. I can login to unity. I can see the unity bar but it is not responsive. I can see the desktop but nothing is responding. Even ctrl-alt-del doesn't work. I can just do a ssh into the system.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello Venktram
Can you please extract the files in /var/log/ (only the files, not the carpets) and attach them here, using the button below 'Add attachment or patch'
Thanks
Fabio

P.S.
have you already tried to boot with noapic nolapic parameters ?

[Venkatram Tummala (venkatram867)]

I dont have the natty installation any more. I gave on natty because i just couldn't make it run. Besides, i dont wanna turn of acpi. I am back to 10.04 now.

Yes, i already tried noapic nolapic. They dont work.

Others seem to be having the same problem too. It has to be x86_64, exactly 4GB Ram, nvidia driver for this problem to occur,

Hope this gets fixed.

[prodrigestivill (prodrigestivill)]

Happens the same with my nVidia Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240] and NVIDIA-Linux-x86-270.41.06.run

So appears to be a NVIDIA and Kernel incompatibilities,
Maybe the nvidia-current.deb needs to add some patches?

[prodrigestivill (prodrigestivill)]

After booting only once with acpi=off and then rebooting without it, it gets fixed for me (strange), but worked on my pc.

[prodrigestivill (prodrigestivill)]

Failed to boot again, acpi=off only worked once... :(

Here the kernel error... :(

[ 14.942464] alloc_vmap_area: 24 callbacks suppressed
[ 14.942469] vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.
[ 14.943664] NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed! (0x26:0xffffffff:1050)
[ 14.943669] NVRM: rm_init_adapter(0) failed
[ 15.146956] vmap allocation for size 16781312 failed: use vmalloc=<size> to increase size.

With this is the vga board: nVidia Corporation GT215 [GeForce GT 240] (rev a2)

So Xorg don't start...

[Ferry Toth (ftoth)]

I noted that when boot hangs (during plymouth, but before kwin starts) the xorg.log always shows:

open acpi socket failed

then continues to load stuff ( amongst others glx nividea module)

then start loading dri2

and then complains it can not load the nividea driver.

I have not found a solution, but this work around seems to work:

press F8 during plymouth and kwin starts.

Now xorg shows acpi socket openede succesfully

Ferry

[prodrigestivill (prodrigestivill)]

My solution are explained here: http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/270.41.06/README/knownissues.html

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Change this line:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash video=vesa:off gfxpayload=text"

sudo update-grub

[Ferry Toth (ftoth)]

Ah, this pill made the headache go away.

Thanks prodrigestivill.

Less high priority: it also makes plymouth go away.

Is there any way to get plymouth working with nvidea?

ferry

[prodrigestivill (prodrigestivill)]

Even with that parameters I also have the same problems some times.

If that still happend append " vmalloc=256MB" to the same string.

Just remember that as nvidia documentation says, this only affects systems >=4GB with 32bits kernel.

[dino99 (9d9)]

That version is no more supported; please open a new bug report if the actual archive found version also has the same issue.