You have been subscribed to a public bug: Hi, I've installed 12.04 and decided to try nouveau since I'm coding colord-kde which requires XRandR 1.3 (NVIDIA proprietary only supports 1.2), on my wife's laptop the nouveau driver worked fine which is a GT230M iirc, but my GT240 failed, If I ssh and kill KDM I'm able to use the ttyX otherwise the screen is black...
Here is what I have on syslog: Mar 9 17:15:33 Hommer kdm[1373]: X server startup timeout, terminating Mar 9 17:15:35 Hommer kernel: [ 45.949506] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:15:37 Hommer kernel: [ 47.985846] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:15:37 Hommer kernel: [ 50.097667] EXT4-fs (sda2): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0 Mar 9 17:15:37 Hommer kernel: [ 50.169289] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: commit=0 Mar 9 17:15:39 Hommer kernel: [ 49.986244] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:15:41 Hommer kernel: [ 51.987480] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:15:43 Hommer kernel: [ 53.988622] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:15:45 Hommer kernel: [ 55.989725] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:15:47 Hommer kernel: [ 57.990810] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:03 Hommer kdm[1373]: X server termination timeout, killing Mar 9 17:16:06 Hommer kernel: [ 79.356009] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Failed to idle channel 2. Mar 9 17:16:08 Hommer kernel: [ 79.360372] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Ctxprog is still running Mar 9 17:16:10 Hommer kernel: [ 81.361439] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:13 Hommer kdm[1373]: X server is stuck in D state; leaving it alone Mar 9 17:16:13 Hommer kdm[1373]: Failed to start X server. Starting failsafe X server. Mar 9 17:16:13 Hommer kernel: [ 86.356022] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Failed to idle channel 3. Mar 9 17:16:13 Hommer kdm[2023]: Cannot execute "/etc/gdm/failsafeXServer": No such file or directory Mar 9 17:16:15 Hommer kernel: [ 86.360002] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: Ctxprog is still running Mar 9 17:16:17 Hommer kernel: [ 88.361085] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:19 Hommer kernel: [ 90.363170] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:21 Hommer kernel: [ 92.364439] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:23 Hommer kernel: [ 94.365573] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:25 Hommer kernel: [ 96.366699] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:27 Hommer kernel: [ 98.367828] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:28 Hommer kdm[1373]: X server died during startup Mar 9 17:16:28 Hommer kdm[1373]: Failed to start X server. Starting failsafe X server. Mar 9 17:16:28 Hommer kdm[2027]: Cannot execute "/etc/gdm/failsafeXServer": No such file or directory Mar 9 17:16:29 Hommer kernel: [ 100.368962] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:31 Hommer kernel: [ 102.370406] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:33 Hommer kernel: [ 104.371116] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:35 Hommer kernel: [ 106.371769] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:37 Hommer kernel: [ 108.372000] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:39 Hommer kernel: [ 110.372048] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:41 Hommer kernel: [ 112.372539] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:43 Hommer kernel: [ 114.372658] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 Mar 9 17:16:43 Hommer kdm[1373]: X server died during startup Mar 9 17:16:43 Hommer kdm[1373]: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled Mar 9 17:16:45 Hommer kernel: [ 116.372788] [drm] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: PGRAPH TLB flush idle timeout fail: 0x011e0101 0x00000000 0x0000002d 0x00348000 ** Affects: nouveau Importance: Critical Status: Invalid ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Incomplete ** Tags: kubuntu precise -- X does not start on GT240 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/951331 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp