Graphics corrupt and freeze on boot
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xserver-xorg-video-nv (Ubuntu) |
New
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
With Dapper Drake 6.06 (x86_64) and an eVGA GeForce 7800GT (256-P2-N515-AX) graphics card, the GNOME startup splash screen gets corrupted after logging into the GDM. The login screen is fine, but it's when I log in that the corruption happens and then my system completely freezes. I had to go in to Recovery Mode and manually edit xorg.conf myself to use the vesa driver to get the GNOME window manager to start. I can't remember if it was attempting to use the 'nv' or 'nvidia' module before. It must have been 'nv' because 'nvidia' can't be redistributed with the stock install?
It's interesting to note this also happens on SUSE 10.1 (x86_64), and that was with the 'nv' driver. However, after using the 'vesa' driver in the X server configuration, GNOME starts fine on both SUSE and Dapper. GNOME is also fine after installing the 'nvidia' hardware accelerated graphics module, and OpenGL works correctly. This only seems to occur with the Dapper Live CD, or booting after an installation of Dapper. Safe graphics mode on the Live CD also works fine.
System specifications:
ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe (nForce 4 SLI chipset)
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ Winchester
(1) eVGA GeForce 7800GT (256-P2-N515-AX) on PCI Express x16 port
Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.06 (amd64 arch)
I forgot to add that when I say 'completely freeze', I mean that CTRL+ALT+Backspace does not work, nor CTRL+ALT+Del, nor any of the virtual terminals. And for clarification this happens when I use the Dapper Live DVD (except for safe graphics mode), or after an installation of Dapper with the Install CD. Both of these instances occurred when using the amd64-generic kernel. I have not tried the i386 one.