Lucid Alpha3 live cd failing to boot properly, monitor powers off during boot.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Chris Halse Rogers |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-
Hello,
Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 3 Live CD.
The problem I am having is the live cd will only get as far as the cd's boot menu, and when I select either install or live cd, something shuts off my monitor and the power button blinks (no output to monitor I think). I tried this several times without setting special boot options, and several times with random boot options but I still can't get it too keep power to my monitor. This also happens with the check cd for errors option. Being that I have no display afterwards and the live cd is session only I have no log files or error messages to look at. If it is not the Nouveau drivers, then it might be ubiquity or xorg crashing my display.
It is not a problem with my monitor, because I am running Lucid alpha3 as we speak. Also, virtualbox ose in Karmic had no problem running the iso image of Lucid-alpha3. I md5'ed the iso and it checks out fine. The problem is only booting the cd from my PC. Another observation is the lack of display does not prevent Lucid Alpha 3 live cd from booting into a live session, because after 5 minutes or more I can here the ubuntu login sound eventually.
I finally managed to get alpha 3 installed on my computer, but to do that I had to perform the upgrade (update-manager -d) over my 9.10 installation. I couldn't use a free partition like I was hoping. Prior to the Karmic to Lucid upgrade, I installed the proprietary Nvidia graphics card driver to ensure I had working drivers after the upgrade. I believe the driver series was 185. This driver does not show up in the window of the hardware manager in Lucid alpha3. Instead, it shows I have two of them activated, but not currently in use. The names of them are "version current" and "nVida/
My graphics card is a MSI branded Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS PCI Express x16. A list of my hardware is included with this bug report.
thanks,
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Feb 28 11:51:24 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: xserver-
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: xserver-
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686
Changed in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Fix Released → Fix Committed |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
I've got the same problem on my laptop with Intel 855GM graphic chip. Same was with Alpha 2 btw. If I choose nonemodeset option it starts booting but stops at some point showing a message about a'broken pipe'.