[gutsy] "nv" is not new enough to support my chipset (Quadro FX 570M)

I can confirm this on the same laptop (Gutsy tribe 4)
Bug #120943 is a third solution, but the installer should start with vesa or a working nv.

Thanks for reporting this bug in Ubuntu. You're right that this ought to be falling back to the vesa driver. Can you do two things?

First, please attach your /etc/X11/xorg.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log, and the output of lspci -vvnn.

Second, experiment with moving your /etc/X11/xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf-orig and running X with no xorg.conf. This will tell us if in this case, Xorg itself can detect things properly.

I booted with a Tribe 5 CD (which works! previously it didn't on this laptop). Using the regular "boot or install ubuntu," the machine hangs when it starts X. When I choose "boot with safe video mode", I get an 800x600 X display (as expected). When I removed xorg.conf from the Live CD session and restarted GDM, the machine hung (presumably because it was attempting to use the nv driver).

The problem here is the discover package, which suggests the "nv" driver for this card.

Can someone please attach the output from:
 sudo discover --disable-all --enable=pci --format="%S\t%D\n" --debug video

This patch adds the card to the pci list, but without specifying any video driver. It will then be reported as "unknown" and the xorg configuration will pick the "vesa" driver.

Looks good to me. +1 to upload.

discover-data (2.2007.05.11ubuntu3) gutsy; urgency=low

  * add 10de040c Quadro FX 570M which does not work with "nv"
    (LP: #133385)

 -- Tormod Volden <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:48:24 +0200

Does this still need an upload for something related to xserver-xorg-driver-nv? If not, please unsubscribe u-m-s.

You can unsubscribe u-m-s (I can not unsubscribe other people). The xserver-xorg-driver-nv can probably be closed, it would be a wishlist item to have the driver support this card, but that must be left to upstream to decide or fix.

It would be good if someone with this card could confirm that today's daily (or the Beta) indeed picks the vesa driver and everything is fine.

I assume that we're talking of a daily build of the desktop installer CD, right? If so, where can I download it?

The update to the discover package as of today, outputs "unknown unknown" when run, so at least that part works.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/

But note that today's daily has in fact not been updated for a few days, so we'll have to wait.

The new nv 2.1.5 has support for these cards. The inclusion of this version in Ubuntu is tracked in bug #144387. Once it's in, we'll have to update discover-data again.

2.1.5 uploaded on the post-beta queue

discover-data also needs to be updated, and add the pci-id's that the new driver can handle.

I've added all the missing nvidia-pciids to discover-data. The current driver supports them.

Uploaded:

 discover-data (2.2007.05.11ubuntu4) gutsy; urgency=low
 .
   * add various NVidia video cards which the current driver supports.

First of all, sorry for not testing this earlier. I forgot about it.

From the comments above, I'm not entirely certain wether the new NV driver is a part of the Gutsy Beta Live installer? But since the new version seems to be a part of my Gutsy installation I have assumed that it is.

Unfortunately the driver doesn't work with the NVidia card in my laptop (Lenovo T61p, nv pci id 10de:040c). Either from the live CD, nor when using it on my already installed version of gutsy. It works if I start X with the proprietary NVidia driver, and then change to the NV-driver, but not if I use the NV driver directly.

Ok, so if you can get it to work with nv by first using nvidia, then it's due to nv being unable to boot the card. Please try Hardy alpha3 livecd if it works now. We'll report it upstream if it doesn't.

It works with Hardy alpha3, and I verified that X was actually using the nv driver.

Why did you subscribe ubuntu-archive? What is there to do for us?

Martin: it was for the discover-data upload, don't know why it wasn't removed when the package was uploaded.

er, s/uploaded/accepted in gutsy/

Martin Pitt wrote:
> Why did you subscribe ubuntu-archive? What is there to do for us?
>
How about change the ubuntu installer so that for this chipset the
'vesa' driver is selected at install?

The driver in Hardy should fix issues with the card being left stuck, and Klaus confirmed it working on Hardy so closing the bug as fixed.

xserver-xorg-video-nv (1:2.1.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
    + Pull upstream commits up to d483ecd851bb84014f1fa86f0ada4540b3ad801e
      for 8800 GT support and one bug fix.
    + Unwedge the hardware if the BIOS left it stuck, closes: #444743.

 -- Brice Goglin <email address hidden> Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:26:47 +0100