xorg won't start on nvida 6600 card due to nv driver not supporting 6600's
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Timo Aaltonen |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xserver-
During Ubuntu 7.04 Beta installation, the Geforce 6600 has been detected and assigned video driver xorg "nv" in /etc/xorg.conf. This is what was expected.
After reboot into newly installed Feisty, Xorg started and video display is all garbled, strecthed and with wrong colors.
Possible Workaround found (use at your own risk)
- I had to switch to console;
CTRL-ALT-F1
- Go in single user mode;
$ telinit 1
- Change video driver from "nv" to "vesa" in the xorg.conf; sudo vi /etc/xorg.conf and replace "nv" by "vesa" or
$ sudo cp /etc/xorg.conf /etc/xorg.
-Go back to multiuser graphic mode
$ telinit 2
After xorg restarted, Xorg should work properly since it would be using "vesa" driver instead of "nv" driver.
Processor used: Intel Pentium IV 2.4GigHz
Videocard: BFG Geforce 6600 GT OC 128Meg (AGP video card)
It seems the "nv" driver is broken. Feisty is updated as of april 3 and the problem with Xorg "nv" driver is still there.
For this PC configuration, it would have been better if Ubuntu installation would have used "vesa" driver for in the xorg.conf file.
When the video is gardbled, you can sometime recognize part of the gdm/kdm login screen. The image is very stretched and with all the wrong colors...
P.S. There is no linux distro and no Xorg "nv" driver that has ever worked on this PC and this video card. Xorg "vesa" driver works fine. The proprietary driver from Nvidia works perfectly.
thanks
What monitor do you have? Please attach the log files you get with nv and vesa, and the xorg.conf for nv.