This problem is most definitely caused by faulty hardware. It's either caused by the motherboard, or more likely, the video card. My M6500 has both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10 on it. With the FX2800 card, black screens on boot-up/wake-from-suspend were somewhat frequent, but eventually levelled out after a few reboots, on both Ubuntu and Windows 7. I swapped the FX2800 card with a used FX3800 card and it's *worse*. However, I'm able to use a setting in Xorg to tell the nvidia settings driver to *always* throttle back the power mizer to a lower level, and it works fine in Ubuntu. Windows 7 doesn't have a good way of permenantly setting this, and it goes to the black of death waaay more than it did on the old card.
In any case, it's definitely a hardware problem of some kind, and there is a workaround for it, but it's still crap. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-settings in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1207378 Title: Screen intermittently goes black Status in “nvidia-settings” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is a completely new build of 13.04 and after package updates the nouveau driver caused the screen to be a checkerboard of white and black squares after each reboot. Instead I installed the nvidia- current drivers and Xorg displayed great, but now the screen often just goes black while working. This is happening when I had openSUSE installed as well as my current Ubuntu 13.04. This laptop is 3 years old and it has worked wonderfully until now. It's a Dell Precision M6500 and at first I thought it was a hardware issue, and Dell has replaced the motherboard, daughterboard, video card and hard drive, but the same issue is happening. It has taken at least 10 reboots just to get far enough to file this bug. The video card info: $ lspci | grep -i nvidia 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92GLM [Quadro FX 2800M] (rev a2) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: nvidia-settings 304.51-0ubuntu2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.40-generic 3.8.13.4 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Aug 1 09:07:40 2013 InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-07-29 (2 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: nvidia-settings UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-settings/+bug/1207378/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
