Feisty LiveCD - No GUI - Setting video card's bus identifier incorrectly
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| xorg (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Feisty LiveCD gives me sound but no GUI (black screen). I've tried both the first option and safe graphics mode. Both show the progress bar while loading data from the CD. Once that is done the screen goes black and I hear the Ubuntu startup sound. Gnome never loads.
My hardware:
AMD Athlon 64 3500
Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI
Gigabyte GV-3D1 (Dual GeForce 6600GT GPUs on one card)
After troubleshooting I found the problem is that the LiveCD is setting my video card's bus identifier incorrectly. It's detecting it as "PCI:4:0:0" when it should be "PCI:5:0:0".
My video card has two outputs (VGA and DVI). I tried changing connections thinking that was the problem with no luck.
Here are the steps I took to get Gnome running after getting the black screen at boot up:
1. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1
2. Type "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg"
3. Choose yes to detect video card hardware
4. Select "nv" as the drive
5. Choose defaults until "Video card's bus identifier"
6. Change "PCI:4:0:0" that is already populated to "PCI:5:0:0"
7. Press Ctrl+Alt+F7
8. Press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart X
9. Gnome loads
