Comment 2 for bug 769846

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