No screen display with hardy/gutsy displays from gdm onwards

[Dave Morley]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-driver-nv

With my new laptop (HP Pavillion dv9657em) I get limited display with Gutsy it seems to work from the GDM login onward (ie No splash screens). However in Hardy this has gone one step further I get no display at all, that includes terminals (Ctrl+Alt+Fx). This issue remains the same with Gutsy after installing the nvidia driver.

Hardy can be installed on the system using the Alternative cd (which is viewable) however with no display it makes everything else tricky. I'm thinking of reinstalling via the Alt cd and then trying Ctrl-Alt-F1 and loging in and installing nvidia see if that works and also openssh-server so I can access it via a machine that works.

Below is a link to the spec of the machine.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06a/21675-38187-38191-38191-38191-80632151.html

If you need other info then we'll have to see if I can get openssh-server installed :)

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Are you referring to the binary nvidia driver? The open source driver should work for your laptop, but there could be other issues if the livecd is not able to start X.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Neither NV or Nvidia work properly in Gutsy. But in hardy I haven't yet tried installing the Nvidia driver.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

After speaking to our Lug Mentor it was suggested that I try a 32bit install.

This seems to of worked flawlessly. Everything is detected correctly and working fine.

So that would indicate an issue within the 64bit version.

[Will Nowak (compbrain)]

I think I may be experiencing the same issue, let me explain mine and verify that is the same symptoms.

(Dell XPS M1330, NVIDIA Graphics, amd64)
From powering the machine on to GDM login there is nothing but a black screen. Once GDM starts the video comes up and functions. Boot splash does *not* display (Ubuntu logo with progress bar).

Does this sound like your issue davmor2?

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

yes very similar only I get no GFX at all with hardy.

[Will Nowak (compbrain)]

As of last week's hardy updates my Boot splash works again. Yay!

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Thanks for letting us know its working now