This bug (or at least one very similar in output) seems to still exist on Debian as of yesterday at least. The boot error is the same, and depending on the distro/install method (net vs. cd) it may or may not be possible to boot GUI, and even when possible, the fonts are all illegible (blockish blurs). I thought this had to do with using a newer NVidia card (Geforce GTX 750 Ti Maxwell chip) on a somewhat older Intel D975XBX2 MB but perhaps not.
-- 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/1142733 Title: Nvidia: unknown chipset Status in Nouveau Xorg driver: Invalid Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in xserver-xorg-video-nouveau package in Fedora: New Bug description: OS: Ubuntu OS version: 13.04 Architecture: x84_64 On boot the system shows this message: [ 10.893362] nouveau I [ DEVICE] [0000:01:00.0] unknown Feral chipset [ 10.893436] nouveau E [ DEVICE] [0000:01:00.0] unknown chipset, 0x0d7000a2 [ 10.893506] nouveau E [ DRM] failed to create 0x80000080, -22 After that, the system starts apparently without problems. I append some infos about my graphics card from lshw command: *-display UNCLAIMED description: 3D controller product: NVIDIA Corporation vendor: NVIDIA Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0 version: a1 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list configuration: latency=0 resources: memory:f2000000-f2ffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f0000000-f1ffffff ioport:3000(size=128) --- .tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 2.9-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: compiz CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0' CompositorUnredirectFSW: true DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: raring DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes GraphicsCard: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0116] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:072b] Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:072b] InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-03-03 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130303) MachineType: Acer Aspire V5-571G MarkForUpload: True Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.6-0ubuntu3 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.8.0-9-generic root=UUID=90af2353-1568-46fb-8bdd-805f4b92acc7 ro quiet splash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-9.18-generic 3.8.1 Tags: raring ubuntu single-occurrence reproducible compiz-0.9 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-9-generic x86_64 UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo dmi.bios.date: 06/08/2012 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies Ltd. dmi.bios.version: V1.10. dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.board.name: Aspire V5-571G dmi.board.vendor: Acer dmi.board.version: V1.10. dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 9 dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer dmi.chassis.version: V1.10. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLtd.:bvrV1.10.:bd06/08/2012:svnAcer:pnAspireV5-571G:pvrV1.10.:rvnAcer:rnAspireV5-571G:rvrV1.10.:cvnAcer:ct9:cvrV1.10.: dmi.product.name: Aspire V5-571G dmi.product.version: V1.10. dmi.sys.vendor: Acer version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.9~daily13.03.01-0ubuntu1 version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.42-0ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 9.0.2-0ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 9.0.2-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.13.2-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.7.3-0ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.1.0-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.21.3-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.6-0ubuntu3 xserver.bootTime: Mon Mar 4 08:50:22 2013 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.version: 2:1.13.2-0ubuntu2 xserver.video_driver: intel To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nouveau/+bug/1142733/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp