Ubuntu :: Nvidia Graphics Failure
Jul 30, 2010
before i installed ubuntu My pc had had an installed nvidia geforce 6200 256MB graphics plus an onboard intel graohics. it was for times that i wanted to install ubuntu on my pc, but it failed. so i tried to remove the nvidia and install ubuntu with the onboard graphics, and it was successful , i managed to install ubuntu 10.04 amd64 on my pc. now i want to reinstall the nvidia card but i can't. when i put it on my pc and turn it on and chose ubuntu from grub it fails to load ubuntu.so i tried to first install "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.60-pkg2.run" and then assemble the nvidia card on my pc. but "NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.60-pkg2.run" fails to install.the nvidia-installer.log file is attached to this post.
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Jan 26, 2010
I have just installed Ubuntu (9.10) and noted that in order to successfully run the trial off the CD I had to test in "safe graphics" mode. I have an NVIDIA GEforce 6600 GT card - which was discovered by Ubuntu in the first few minutes of the trial and so I activated the recommended driver and continued to test. After a successful trial I installed Ubuntu (dual partition Ubuntu / Windows XP), however, it seems the install didn't activate the required driver (as part of the process) and so I'm unable to get into my newly-installed Ubuntu at all. All I get is a flashing tty screen asking for my username and password - however it's erratic and won't recognise what I type. So - I'm stuck in a catch-22 as there doesn't seems to be a safe graphics mode option via the start (GRUB?) menu list.
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Apr 26, 2009
I have a Packard Bell Imedia desktop with on-board ATI graphics. I also have a spare Nvidia PCI card. Is there a way I could use the Nvidia to run a second screen, if so how as the Nvidia and fglrx drivers seem to collide in a show stopping way!!I am running Kubuntu Intrepid, but have resorted to Gnome as KDE4 went spectacularly wrong on me.
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Jan 3, 2011
when i start uubuntu it automatically goes to tty with out letting me login. then when i press startx it says:
NVIDIA: failed to initialize the nvidia graphics device pci:0:13:0
nvidia: please check your systems kernal log for additional erroe
nvidia: messages and refer to chapter 8
nvidia: failed to initialize the nvidia graphics device!
nvidia: screen found, but none have a usable configuration
fatal screen error: no screen found
right before this i had activated a nvidia graphics device
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Nov 23, 2010
Recently (the past two days), I have been experiencing graphical glitches. Seemingly random pixels (often in a horizontal line or rectangular group) would flash incorrect colors (like stuck pixels, except their color can change and they appear and disappear).
By removing my NVidia 8500 GT (falling back to the integrated 6150LE), I have removed the symptoms (except that now CAELinux doesn't display anything... but everything else works).
I suspect that it is the graphics card (I'm aware that the cards have known overheating issues), but I want to eliminate any other options before buying another. Could these symptoms be the result of a motherboard failure?
EDIT: I forgot to mention that it also locks up frequently with the card in (the graphics will freeze, but the caps lock light doesn't flash like it would in a kernel panic).
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Nov 30, 2014
I have an HP pavilion laptop with core i5 4210U that has intel HD4400 graphics. I installed debian wheezy 7.7 after shrinking win 8 and freeing 350GB for debian. I went through the hurdle of making a UEFI bootable USB drive and the system dual boots fine. But once I boot debian, I get all the run time messages and then login prompt flashes and the whole screen is blank except for a prompt on top left. I can open a terminal but that's about it. I'm unable to remotely login (connection refused) from either windows using moba terminal or another debian machine.
I searched the internet and found : [URL] ....
I tried the apt-get but it failed saying:
Code: Select allE: The value "wheezy-backports" is invalid for APT::Default-Release as such a release is not available in the sources
In case I have to install Debian testing version that some said worked, how do I get rid of my current installation, which is UEFI? Do I just erase its partitions in windows? Then what happens to its UEFI boot manager? Just leave it there to rot? If I install again with debian testing version, I envision some problems of the grub UEFI boot manager thinking that the debian 7.7 is still there and try to boot to it. I do have the partition images in partition manager home version 12 so I could just restore the UEFI partition.
HP Pavilion 15
Core i5 421-U
4GB DDR3L
750GB WD hard drive
15.4" 1366*786
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Sep 17, 2010
I tried to install the ATI proprietary driver for an HD 5800 (Catalyst for Linux 64 bit, v. 10.8). The two main instruction sites are:
SDB:Configuring graphics cards - openSUSE
SDB:ATI drivers - openSUSE
I chose the hard way method. I downloaded the driver. Restarted SuSE 11.3 in mode 3. And as SU followed the method above, including adding the zypper programmes (which found some already installed and which installed a whole lot more). When I then attempted to run the install (sh ./atidriver-install-10.8-x86.x86_64.run) and selected automatic mode. It completed 82% and stalled attempting to install "Postprocessing Kernel Module".
I pressed control c to kill the process and attempted to re-install using the manual mode and then using the build mode. In both instances, same outcome. When I rebooted, and entered my password, the desktop did not load but sent me back to the username/password page. I can't get back in. Does not matter as I have backed up my docs.
I decided to install the proprietary driver because the colours on the desktop corrupt after the 2nd boot following a clean install. i.e. on the initial boot the colours are fine. Second, this is the 3rd effort I have made to install the driver after a clean install of SuSE 11.3 and there is no change in outcome. So, my question: anyone any suggestion what is going on and how I can install the driver successfully? Or, do I not understand the new regime in SuSE 11.3 and should I not attempt to install a new driver.
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Sep 13, 2010
on my pc, that was running WinXP, I thought of installing Ubuntu. (I did install linux already a few times in the past years and use it on another couple of pcs) But something went wrong. This machine has 2 x 200MB maxtor drives, in raid 0 configuration, supported by the motherboard Nvidia chipset, and working well in Windows. When ran the live Ubuntu 10.04 cd, gparted was not able to access the drives in raid configuration, until I installed the mdadm and kpartx packages then the existing data became visible. So after that initial moment I thought all was ok and proceeded to install Lucid on the machine, dual booting with Windows. I did partition manually so that in my 400GB raid drive there is an 80GB NTFS partition with WinXP, a 90GB extended partition for Linux Ext4 and Swap and then a last NTFS 200GB partition for data. All went well, but now on restarting the computer nothing happens, nothing loads, Grub is not showing, and it looks like I cannot launch Linux nor Windows. All the data from WinXP and the Ubuntu installation seems to be on the disks but the pc is just not booting. I suppose the problem is with the raid configuration that is not handled properly during the installation, but is there anything that I can do now, apart from reinstalling Windows Xp or installing Ubuntu in a non raid configuration?
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May 7, 2011
I'm having issues installing the nvidia-96 driver package on the new Lubuntu 11.04. I have a GeForce4ti 4200 card and have had that driver package install successfuly on numerous flavors of Ubuntu over the years.
apt-get spits out the following error:
Code: The following packages have unmet dependencies: nvidia-96 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-8.0 but it is not installable Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.8.99.905-1ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
Meanwhile, a check of the currently installed xserver-xorg-core through apt-cache shows:
[Code]...
The nouveau driver does work, but I would really like full 3d acceleration like I have had in the past.
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Jun 30, 2010
Had mythbuntu/xbmc running for 4 months with vdpau and all the same hardware. I killed it with an update and thought it'd all be easier To build it the 2nd time -- wrong! Fresh install of mythbuntu lucid off cd, Asus p5g43t-m pro, nvidia gforce 9500 gt
What I tried so far...Different drivers with the hardware app thingee. Multiple times -- Purge nvidia, purge nouveau, blacklist list of other video stuff with extra line after, stop gnome, manual install various drivers - 195.xxxxx or Synaptic install various drivers. Tried updates, adding avenard and daily build repos. Everything in combinations. Outcome remains consistant. Lo res error start, can't load nvidia driver, selected but not in use, xorg.conf needs editing.
I'm getting the same error messages as the common nvidia help posts describe but the solutions aren't working for me.
4 days of this, 3 installs plus a shot at Mint, and no progress. I'm pretty frustrated. I'd consider returning to karmic if I didn't think the updates would pork the nvidia driver all over again.
Last install of 9.10 there was a required edit of vmalloc=256M and a shut off of cx18. That's been fixed in lucid? What else ccould it be?
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Jul 14, 2010
I have recently moved from an Nvidia 9400 GT to a ATI HD 5670 but im having a little trouble getting ubuntu to run properly with the new graphics card. I have uninstalled all of the old installed graphics drivers for my nvidia card and have tried to install all of the ati ones.
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Mar 21, 2011
I'm running Ubuntu as a guest virtual machine (via VirtualBox) on a Windows 7 machine and have a LOT of problems with getting the graphics to work properly... I've tried for a couple of days now without success. I don't know if the problem is with VirtualBox or Ubuntu, but I'll try to post it here if anyone has any suggestions.
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Nov 9, 2010
I have followed the Nvidia driver guide exactly. I did not see any errors during the four-step process. However, on the last reboot the system gets as far as the fedora "f" on the startup screen and hangs. This appears completely fatal. I have tried the procedure a couple of times now and the result has been to reinstall Fedora 14 from scratch each time. I have been able to access the system files after the crash using the system rescue option on the installation disk. I am on the Gnome X86_64 installation. My graphics card is NVIDIA GeForce GTS 240.
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I have a nvidia Geforce 8500 on my 10.04 system - the driver I'm using is: NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended]. When I look at System/Preferences/Monitors I am asked if I want to use the vendor's graphics tool and up pops the NVIDIA X Server Settings window. How do I enable 3D acceleration?
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Jun 21, 2010
I'm just starting out with ubuntu (10.04), and installed it using a live cd on my alienware m5500. I had the update manager update everything, and then went looking on how to properly use my nvidia graphics card (geforce go 7600) because the graphics weren't looking very good, and I couldn't use any desktop effects.
I followed the directions found here in order to blacklist nouveou and enable the current nvidia driver. However after rebooting, and every time I time I turn on the computer, it never makes it to the desktop, i usually end up seeing the ubuntu startup and/or the nvidia logo before it proceeds to one of several screens (none of which allow me to click or type, although sometimes i can move the mouse).
-black screen
-black screen with light gray bars top and bottom
-black screen with vertical green line
-orange and purple horizontal stripes
-purple and light purple horizontal stripes
Thinking that it could be one of the listed bugs from the directions, I followed the work around for "Screen Blanks/Monitor Turns Off", but the problem persists. I have used the live disc to do a fresh install and attempt it about 3 times.Anyone know what this could be, or have advice for troubleshooting? Let me know if I can provide any other information that may prove useful - I'm fairly new to linux in general, but I can probably get some information from recovery mode if I've got a little guidance.
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May 25, 2011
There's no login screen and I can't get to a tty. I have tried editing xorg with the backup, but the name of the driver is the same.Is there anyway to roll back the driver from a livecd?
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Sep 1, 2011
A few days ago, I upgraded my system from the EOL 9.04 to 10.04LTS. This did go relatively well, though the upgrade process reported some "could not update" errors for the NVIDIA drivers and at the first boot it reported it had to start in low graphics mode. I noticed that I had manually installed drivers from NVIDIA's website before the upgrade, while afterwards the hardware drivers from the package manager had been enabled. I then disabled Ubuntu's drivers, and attempted to manually reinstall NVIDIA's own drivers.
This resulted in some errors related to the install script not being able to find some vdpau related stuff. Something interesting then occured. As root everything worked flawless, but as normal user I still ended up with errors resulting Ubuntu to continue in low graphics mode. So I enabled the package managers driver again. This seemed to solve all issues for the next 5 boots. Until this morning, I again get a black screen with only a blinking "_" on the screen for quite some time, after which (nice feature) Ubuntu proposes to continue in low graphics mode.
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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May 8, 2009
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Jun 27, 2011
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Code:
root@DarkStar:/home/server/Utils/Packages/Slackware/13.37/64/nvidia-kernel# SRCSUFFIX="-no-compat32" ./nvidia-kernel.SlackBuild
[code]....
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Jun 18, 2010
What is causing this graphic distortion?I dropped Vista because this problem would crash the video driver and pop a black screen for a few seconds over and over and over and over.Now that I installed ****ING Ubuntu it's doing this problem, but without the black screens and only messed up graphics show.So what the heck guys, is this a hardware or software problem? And this same type of graphic distortion appears in games like Combat Arms and Halo.I am so SICK of NVIDIA never ever in my whole entire life will I ever buy NVIDIA again! Luckily for nvidia I'm only 17 years old and have 40 years of life left to buy computers without nvidia in them. Until I save up dough for a new computer "without nvidia" I'll keep trying to fix this. P.S this nvidia chip is tied down to my motherboard.
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Heres my xorg.conf file ...
Code:
Section "Screen"
Identifier"Default Screen"
DefaultDepth24
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load"glx"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier"Default Device"
Driver"nvidia"
Option"NoLogo""True"
EndSection
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