Ubuntu :: NVIDIA Kernel Fails To Load, Forced Into Low-graphics Mode?

May 15, 2010

I can run Ubuntu 10.04 just fine as long as I have my hardware drivers disabled, but when I enable my hardware drivers I get an error before the GDM login screen that says something to the effect of it being unable to load the NVIDIA KernelI'm then given the choice of booting into low-graphics mode, configuring xorg for this hardware, troubleshooting, dropping to console, or restarting X.Booting to low-graphics mode does nothing useful, just boots to low gfx mode.Configuring xorg for this hardware does nothing at all - same errors after trying every single option in the configuring xorg sectionTroubleshooting is equally useless to me - I can't copy and paste the very-long error reports, I'm not an xorg pro so editing the xorg conf doesn't help me, and when I tried following the option to export all my config and error logs, it said that it has exported it to $xorg_backup_file - but that's just a variable not a file.. after a reboot I can't find this anywhere.

I've googled this and the only useful info I've found is to run nvidia-xconfig as root, which I've done and it has zero effect.The only temporary solution is to disable the nvidia driver, which lets me boot normally using metacity at full resolution, but has no accelerated 3d or composite overlay so I'm unable to run compiz or have any nifty 3d.Details: Vid card: NVIDIA G96 (according to lspci) Driver: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended] OS: Ubuntu 10.04

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Here is a relevant part from my syslog:
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.075265] [TTM] Zone kernel: Available graphics memory: 1028724 kiB.
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.075275] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 256 MiB VRAM
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.097167] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: 512 MiB GART (aperture)
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.098283] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Allocating FIFO number 1
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.102934] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: nouveau_channel_alloc: initialised FIFO 1
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.103515] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected a DAC output
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.103518] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected a TMDS output
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.103521] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: DCB encoder 1 unknown
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.103522] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected a DAC output
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.103526] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected a VGA connector
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.103577] [drm] nouveau 0000:04:00.0: Detected a DVI-I connector
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.858579] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Aug 10 08:17:53 linux kernel: [24.858583] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.401599] input: HDA Digital PCBeep as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/input/input5
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.632700] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine was not called for 1 device(s).
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.632704] NVRM: This can occur when a driver such as nouveau, rivafb,
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.632705] NVRM: nvidiafb, or rivatv was loaded and obtained ownership of
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.632706] NVRM: the NVIDIA device(s).
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.632708] NVRM: Try unloading the conflicting kernel module (and/or
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.632709] NVRM: reconfigure your kernel without the conflicting
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.632710] NVRM: driver(s)), then try loading the NVIDIA kernel module
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.632711] NVRM: again.
Aug 10 08:17:54 linux kernel: [25.632713] NVRM: No NVIDIA graphics adapter probed!

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Heres my xorg.conf file ...
Code:
Section "Screen"
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EndSection

Section "Module"
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EndSection

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(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load NVIDIA kernel module!
(EE) NVIDIA(0): *** Aborting ***
(EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration

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Code:
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please check your
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Quote: sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

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I experienced what i perceive as the craziest thing during 2 years of using ubuntu. About some months ago, I have two ubuntu installed on my HP-mini netbook: ubuntu 10.04 64 bit (CAElinux) and kubuntu 10.04, and run without problem.

One day, the netbook's battery run out of charge and I forgot to plug it in. The ubuntu, as usual, went to hibernate, but without harddisk noise, so I forced it to shutdown by pressing power button (as i think it is not normal). What happened later was the partition of 10.04 was broken, it could not boot, it even affected another partition as the netbook couldn't boot kubuntu 10.04.

I try to run liveUSB and CD of both distro and the liveCD/USB boot stopped on loading screen. So I try another linux distro: PCLinuxOS, which was able to boot but took very long time. The partition of ubuntu 10.04 could not be accessed.

After installing PClinuxOS in replace of kubuntu, I scanned the ubuntu 10.04 partition and the partition was fixed, I could access the partition and could load to ubuntu 10.04, but it took very long time. Here how it loaded: first: blank screen with blinking cursor, then ubuntu load screen, then back to blank screen with blinking cursor, then it showed numbers and sentences, like some scanning works. It took long time before login screen appeared (about 10-15 minute, while the prevously normal boot time in my netbook was less than 1 minute), but once its done, the ubuntu worked normally. This also the case in the PClinuxOS and the reason it load very slowly.

After this, I try to boot the liveUSB of various linux distro, and found some could boot while the others not:

Able to load with unusual slow boot time:
PClinuxOS (latest)
Ubuntu 8.04
Fedora (latest)
Linuxmint 8 (based on ubuntu 9)

Can't load
ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10
kubuntu 10.04
latest linuxmint

The liveUSB boot could take 1 hour. I also try the latest Puppy, Gentoo and OpenSuse liveUSB but it couldn't boot, and it likely the liveUSB problem. I made the all the liveUSB with unetbootin. The ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, kubuntu and the latest linuxmint could not boot even after I scanned the ubuntu 10.04 partition. There was no problem with the liveUSB as it would load normally on another computer. I think it is just the variant of ubuntu 10 that is not being able to boot.

I was not content on this slow boot, so I try to format the two partition of ubuntu and PClinuxOS (there are another partitions though), and installed ubuntu 8. But it also happened to boot slowly as the previous ubuntu. Then I replaced it with linuxmint 8, and the same occurred. So I try to install windows on another partition, and it boot normally.

The question is, what is happening. Why do the forced-shutdown-of-ubuntu-10.04 affect another partition, to the boot of another distro? If my HD was broken, the Windows would load very slowly too right? Yes, in SMART Data (from disk utility) it showed "few bad sector", but i think this is not related to the slow boot. The ubuntu 10.04, 10.10, kubuntu and the latest linuxmint cannot boot until this moment. I am thinking there are some informations planted on my computer, that twist it to load some distro slowly, and prevent it to load some others. But where and what? (I almost arrived to the thought that this is supernatural!)

Because of my long story up there (as I think it must be reported), the conclusion is:
1. Ubuntu 10.04 on my netbook was forced shutdown (by me)
2. It caused the partition broken
3. After fixing the partition (by scan, but I forgot the command), it took very long time to boot, but the ubuntu itself run normally
4. It also affected the boot of another distro (slow down the boot time), but Ms.Windows boot time is normal
5. It also caused ubuntu 10 (and its variant) to not be able to boot from liveCD/USB
6. It also caused me going crazy

Now im gonna format the whole HD in hope of ubuntu 10.04 (and later) could boot again, but shall it fix the problem? (as formatting the previously ubuntu 10.04 partition did not solve the problem). Or should I buy another HD (or even computer) to install natty!

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