nouveau/nv don't work with NVidia 9400GT

[Matthias Niess]

Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10

xserver-xorg: 1:7.6+7ubuntu7

lspci -nn | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9400 GT] [10de:0641] (rev a1)

When booting Ubuntu after a fresh install for the first time, the screen just goes to black after GRUB. According to a bugreport at redhat (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480393) this is because of x-orgs auto-detection. When nvidias vendor-code is seen, xorg will default to nv/nouveau. Neither work on my machine.

My workaround was booting from a live-cd, chrooting into the ubuntu-install and installing nvidia-current(-updates) from there.

[Matthias Niess (mniess)]

Dear bugbot. There are two seperate bugs. The one I was reporting is that the xserver-xorg autodetection choses nouveau for all nvidia cards (which leads to a non-functioning Ubuntu after install).

The bug in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is a different one. It is that not all models of 9400 GT work with nouveau. The first bug (i.e. this bug) is rather easy to fix (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480393#c1). The second bug requires a bit more knowledge.

So should I change the affected package back to xserver-xorg?

[Matthias Niess (mniess)]

Hm. I'll append some error logs asap.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Matthias Niess, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal), as it will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report:

apport-collect -p xserver-xorg-video-nouveau REPLACE-WITH-BUG-NUMBER

Please note, given that the information from the prior release is already available, doing this on a release prior to the development one would not be helpful.

Thank you for your understanding.

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