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No display image on Ubuntu Feisty Fawn

Bug #105761 reported by DesktopMan
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Ubuntu
Fix Released
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Brian Murray

Bug Description

I tried installing Ubuntu Feisty Beta (Xubuntu edition), but I just got a black screen on the graphical installer. I then downloaded the alternate install CD which worked fine. After GRUB is displayed I get nothing; everything is black.

Computer is working fine, as I installed SSH from the recovery console, rebooted, and managed to log in.

I've tried the following steps:

syslog/dmesg doesn't have much of interest (though I don't know what I should look for)
All cables etc have been tested. I also connected a second monitor to the other dvi port in case it defaulted to that one.
I tried installing nvidia-glx, but it shouldn't matter for console, and it didn't
I also tried swapping from "nv" to "vesa", no go (again, shouldn't matter for console)

Hardware:
Intel Core 2 Quad 3.2 ghz
GeForce 8800
EVGA nForce 680i mainboard
Soundblaster X-Fi
2x Western Digital Raptor 150 gbyte on nForce ata controller

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Tags: display feisty
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DesktopMan (christian-auby) wrote :

Forgot to mention that I'm using the 64 bit version of Ubuntu.

description: updated
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unikuser (unikuser) wrote :

Did you try removing "quient splash" from kernel line in grub config /boot/grub/menu.lst? If not try that once.

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DesktopMan (christian-auby) wrote :

Thanks that gave me a bit more info to work with. Basically it says "Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device PCI:1:0:0. no screens found."

This can't be the original problem though, as I didn't get any display image without the nvidia driver either.

I reverted back to "nv" (was using "nvidia") to see if it fails in a different way, and was to surprised to see that it boots fine. Problem solved I guess, as for the reason I have no idea. It does some funny swapping of the monitors too, it boots on the CRT, XFCE loads on the LCD, and if I go to a console it swaps to the CRT again :P

Thanks! Now I just have to get the nvidia driver working

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DesktopMan (christian-auby) wrote :

Driver from http://www.nvidia.com works fine, also seem to fix the lcd/crt swap issue. *Happy*

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote :

This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update. Thanks again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Feel free to submit any future bugs you may find.

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