screen distorted after boot-up - GF6600

[Tanel Liiv]

Device Description NVIDIA GeForce 6600
Adapter String GeForce 6600
BIOS String Version 5.43.02.46.C3
Chip Type GeForce 6600
DAC Type Integrated RAMDAC
Installed Drivers nv4_disp (6.14.10.7772 - nVIDIA Detonator 77.72)
Memory Size 256 MB

This is my Video card. Right after install, when the login screen comes, the screen is all distorted. The screen has only upright white stripes with random colours. The sounds and system work, only the screen is distorted. The install and boot-up screen are OK.
This happens with every ubuntu version.(the last one, and the one before that.) I have read similiar happenings fromm other people on the net. They also have a nvidia card.

[Tanel Liiv (kuratkull)]

bump

This has something to do with the ncidia drivers. Please update them or something :) thank you

[Tanel Liiv (kuratkull)]

bump

This has something to do with the nvidia drivers. Please update them or something :) thank you

[Zak B. Elep (zakame)]

Hi there! =)

Can you please follow the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingXAutoconfiguration for Ubuntu >= 5.04 and provide us with the outputs?

Thanks,

Zakame

[robtoujours (robtoujours)]

I also get this bug, system:

GeForce 6600 AGP, 256MB
AMD 64 3200+
K8-Upgrade 1689 Mobo

This has happened on the last version (5.10) and Flight 5 of Dapper (6.04), using the Live (64 bit) cd's each time.

This is a serious bug (severity should be critical) and needs to be fixed - GF6600 is a very common card and X is not even remotely usable as-is.

I believe there's a complicated workaround if you google it, but other Linux distros don't have this problem?

[Tanel Liiv (kuratkull)]

Basicly, I just removed the old nvidia-glx and downloaded the new driver from nvidia's site with lynx.
That worked :)

[Jerome S. Gotangco (jsgotangco)]

Please do not post "bumps" on a bug tracking system. This is not a forum and bugs are categorized accordingly.

As for the issue regarding display, I assume the generic driver is used instead of the binary?

[robtoujours (robtoujours)]

More info:

Also tested with Live CD x86 version (v 6.04, Flight 5)

Same result.

From google, I gather that what one is to do (with an install distro anyway) is replace the driver

http://www.mepis.org/node/5471
"Yes, i got the blocks too with ubuntu. So i logged in with a vesa driver, downloaded the nvidia-glx driver via apt get, and rebooted! Bam nvidia with full 3d!"

However this is too complicated for a novice user who will just go "huh?" and is not familiar with sudo etc. If its just a question of the wrong driver loaded by default sure this is easily fixable by including the most recent driver in the next release?

I have also tried The PCLinuxOS Live CD, (7676 Nvidia driver) located at http://www.pclinuxos.com/page.php?7 and it does not have this problem. It boots straight into X and KDE without incident.

The DebuggingXAutoConfiguration guide posted above is too vague as to what is required and I couldn't get it working - though maybe it doesn't work the same on a LiveCD.

Hope that's some info for whoever is listening.

[robtoujours (robtoujours)]

Updated severity to Major as not being able to boot into X and being faced with a corrupted screen is a showstopper for some, though not all, users.

[robtoujours (robtoujours)]

This bug is the same as 29975

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/29975

The culprit appears to be the opensource nv drivers, and the problem is fixed by using the official nvidia ones. Again though, the first time user would be completely flummoxed by this - even Windows allows one to boot into "Safe Mode" and gain some functionality.

[Loïc Corbasson (cnb)]

Seems to me that this bug doesn't have anything to do with xserver-xorg-driver-synaptics or linux-restricted-modules-2.6.15, shouldn't it be reaffected to xserver-xorg-driver-nv?

[Adam Conrad (adconrad)]

Clearly not a restricted modules problem, since people report that using the LRM driver FIXES it, not breaks it.

[Ethan Bissett (draimus-deactivatedaccount)]

I also have a GF6600 with this issue which I reported in the duplicate bug: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-nv/+bug/40442

Recently I tried edgy knot-2 live CD and the same issue verticle lines showed up again in the standard boot mode. However selecting Graphics Safe Mode did not work around the problem this time.

I'm not sure if the safe driver now doesn't work with this card or if in Knot-2 the Graphics Safe Mode is just setup improperly (mistake in the boot params perhaps).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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