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nvidia-graphics-drivers package

Removing "nvidia-current" causes black screen (display turns off) during boot

Bug #534634 reported by Daniel Hahler
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Bug Description

I wanted to test the nouveau driver on my Nvidia 6600 GT card, but it failed during X startup (bug 533642).

I was told to remove nvidia-current, and when trying this, I'm getting a blank screen (display turns off) during boot (even before being asked for the cryptsetup passphrase.

The system appears to work fine otherwise: I can even login to KDE, but even then, the screen is off. Switching forth and back to another VT does not help either.

If I reinstall nvidia-current, boot works fine again.

Maybe bug 534636 is causing this (glxinfo crashing)?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 8 21:18:45 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 195.36.08, 2.6.32-16-generic, i686: installed
Lsusb:
 Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:00db Microsoft Corp. Natural Ergonomic Keyboard 4000 V1.0
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1a7c:0068
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nvidia-current 195.36.08-0ubuntu1
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=73d091ef-8ee9-4ad2-9243-1ece878c1024 resume=/dev/fastrcvg/swaplv ro acpi_use_timer_override usbcore.autosuspend=1 splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.24-generic
SourcePackage: nvidia-graphics-drivers
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 03/08/2007
dmi.bios.vendor: Award Software International, Inc.
dmi.bios.version: F9c
dmi.board.name: NF-CK804
dmi.board.vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
dmi.board.version: x.x
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAwardSoftwareInternational,Inc.:bvrF9c:bd03/08/2007:svn:pn:pvr:rvnGigabyteTechnologyCo.,Ltd.:rnNF-CK804:rvrx.x:cvn:ct3:cvr:
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 codename: lucidarchitecture: i686kernel: 2.6.32-16-generic

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :
description: updated
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Harry (harry33) wrote :

Daniel
Did you remove the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
or at least removed the lines pointing to NVidia proprietary drivers?

Reinstalling nvidia-current should not work unless you run the command:
nvidia-xconfig
That command will edit the xorg.conf file.

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

Yes, I've edited the Driver line manually, from "nvidia" to "nouveau".
But during this blackout I'm reporting here, I've been using "Driver nv", and it should not matter really - or does X start before any cryptsetup passphrase dialog already?!

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote :

Closing as Invalid: I cannot reproduce it anymore.

Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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