I am experiencing the same problem. Using an p4p800 motherboard with AGP nvidia card, FX5200. I can use nouveau, but that is far to slow and doesn't give good resolution (24 inch philips diaply 1920 * 1200). On ubuntu 12.04 i used nvidia driver 173 with modified xorg.conf which resutled in good performance at 1920 * 1200. After upgrade to 12.10 the screen shows one color and only the mouse pointer. When moving slowly on the screen i can probe for edges of windows, the resize handle becomes visible. When using that to guess where the exit cross of apps is, i could close the music player. On 12.04 I had some start up applications (thunderbird, rhtyhmbox). They really start, and by guessing where the cross is i could close rhyhm player. Just don't see their windows. The problem is very good reproducable on my machine (some people report that it starts and stops with unknown triggers). The screen shows one color, could be any. At some moments it even changes to some other color. Seems not to be related to user actions. There seems not to be a scheme in the change or colors. I will re-install the nvidia and collect some logs, add them later. Now the system is set to nouveau. This is posted from another disk and 12.04.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-video-nouveau in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1068601 Title: 12.10: Black screen with GeForce FX 5200 card Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Having installed Ubuntu 12.10, a black screen now appears after logon (only the cursor is visible). Everything (graphically) up until logon is fine. On my previous build (12.04), I was using Nvidia's drivers. As well, this did not happen with the nouveau drivers either. WORKAROUND: This seems to be a problem with my Nvidia FX5200 graphics card as when I removed this and used the integrated graphics (Intel 82865G) instead, everything was fine. WORKAROUND: Using the following kernel parameters gets me to the desktop but the OS is very unresponsive: nomodeset --- ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: i386 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: graham 1720 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: country GB: (2402 - 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20) (5170 - 5250 @ 40), (N/A, 20) (5250 - 5330 @ 40), (N/A, 20), DFS (5490 - 5710 @ 40), (N/A, 27), DFS DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=bd714dd8-b111-42c1-88b5-0b32b12b0bff InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-19 (6 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal" - Release i386 (20121017.2) MachineType: Dell Computer Corporation OptiPlex GX270 MarkForUpload: True Package: linux (not installed) ProcFB: 0 nouveaufb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-17-generic root=UUID=f4138a35-ef8f-4c93-a963-09e6b2ae85e3 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-17.28-generic 3.5.5 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.5.0-17-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.5.0-17-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.95 RfKill: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no Tags: quantal running-unity Uname: Linux 3.5.0-17-generic i686 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo dmi.bios.date: 06/26/2006 dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation dmi.bios.version: A07 dmi.board.name: 0FG015 dmi.board.vendor: Dell Computer Corp. dmi.chassis.type: 6 dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellComputerCorporation:bvrA07:bd06/26/2006:svnDellComputerCorporation:pnOptiPlexGX270:pvr:rvnDellComputerCorp.:rn0FG015:rvr:cvnDellComputerCorporation:ct6:cvr: dmi.product.name: OptiPlex GX270 dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Computer Corporation To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1068601/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
