I have same problems with ASUS MSN-MX SE PLUS motherboard.
Same hardware on 2 pc's, on one is Ubuntu 7.10 Hardy, on another Ubuntu 8.04
Several times problems with a Nvidia GeForce 6150 SE , blank screen, manual
changing of resolution did help.
Apparently, there is a release of new Nvidia VGA
Ubuntu 7.10 is Gutsy, not Hardy and Gutsy isn't supported anymore for as
far as I know.
It is also not the fault of the graphics card but a combination of all
sorts of issues on quite a few sides, I did some kind of workaround to
fix this but I don't remember it (I'm on hardy now and planning
Does also work the text terminals (tty1-6)?
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I recently upgraded to the Hardy Beta. I still had this trouble at
first. But I then installed the proprietary drivers as well as all the
other updates available and now my usplash is working great! This is now
solved for me!!!
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This happens also on 32 bit intel.
I have two graphic cards.
One is nVidia 6600
Other is nVidia 8600GT
The 6600 works with usplash
THe 8600 does not work with usplash. It does work with X though.
THis is on a 7.10 xubuntu install.
Also, I noticed I don't have my text consoles when using the
Hello,
In my case it was not a bug, thanks to Saïvann I could correct the
problem :
I had the comment vga=786 in my file /boot/grub/menu.lst
I removed it and there is no more message at boot.
So no report needed for this.
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HOWTO: end user fix in Gutsy without upgrading to Hardy
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sudo apt-get install fakeroot build-essential
sudo apt-get build-dep libx86-1
wget
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libx86/libx86_0.99-1.2ubuntu3.dsc
wget
Hello,
I still have the same problem at boot, but the exact message is :
Undefined video mode number: 312
I have Ubuntu Hardy beta with all the updates done, an AMD dual Core X2
6400+ and as graphic card ATI Radeon X1950 Pro
I just have to click on space button to continue booting, I did not
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:00:11PM -, Valeryan_24 wrote:
I still have the same problem at boot, but the exact message is :
Undefined video mode number: 312
Please open a new bug report for the problem you're seeing. The
original libx86 missing-opcodes bug (this one) is already fixed.
wo!
that's the first time i've seen that screen on this PC - and i've had it for
almost a year.
Thanks!!!
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Forget my last comment, the cause for the abnormal boot behaviour of my
system was that I had messed up boot options in /boot/grub/menu.lst.
To boot my system I am using grub from my Gutsy installation and thus
the menu.lst doesn't get rewritten if I install Hardy. Some time ago I
had added
Now writing from the latest daily build. The fix works. Good job.
Nice to see free software development model works great =)
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Kees, mjg59, and the rest,
Thanks for your efforts in resolving this. It improves the Core2Duo
amd64 experience.
Harvey
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On my system this seems to be not completely fixed. I have done a fresh
installation with daily-live image 20080322, booting the live CD works
fine, but when I boot the installed system, I get the splash screen only
during the first boot stage (when the progress bar goes from left to
right and
Thanks ! Where can we get the fix :D ?
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When a bug is set to fix released, it means that a update has been
released that fix this problem. All you have to do is to update your
computer. This bug is fixed in Hardy with libx86 (0.99-1.2ubuntu3). It
will probably don't get fixed in Gutsy
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I updated my system completely, and I get usplash ONLY when shutting
down, not when booting up. I don't get TTY's, nothing, just a blank
screen when starting up.
Also, I'm confused why this won't be fixed in Gutsy, by not fixing it in
Gutsy you'd be ending the eighteen month support cycle VERY
I also verified that I do have the package that you mentioned installed.
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 07:05:33PM -, Jeremy LaCroix wrote:
I also verified that I do have the package that you mentioned installed.
You may need to run sudo update-initramfs -u to see the changes happen
during boot-time.
As for Gutsy, this may not be valid for a Stable Release Update.
I just made a fresh install of the daily build 20080322 and it works
without any problems. No black screens, no text scrolling on it, just
the progress bar, as it should be.
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I ran sudo update-initramfs -u and it's fixed now. :)
Kees Cook wrote:
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 07:05:33PM -, Jeremy LaCroix wrote:
I also verified that I do have the package that you mentioned installed.
You may need to run sudo update-initramfs -u to see the changes happen
It seems to me that this is not usplash bug. When I add change splash
option to nosplash I get text output, but when I add vga=795 it shows
nothing. It could be framebuffer bug.
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I can also confirm this with Hardy Beta on my T61 (Nvidia Quadro NVS 140m).
This happens with the 64-bit version only; with 32-bit the boot splash works
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Confirmed, Hardy Beta x64, clean install, nvidia 8600gt, with open
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Me too. Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) Beta Release LiveCD session AMD64. The
bug is still present...
My hardware (stated at the first posts of this bug report):
CPU: Core 2 Quad Q6600
Memory: 4GB RAM
VGA: 8800GTS 320MB
Motherboard: Asus Commando.
Monitor: Philips 200WS (TFT-LCD 20.1, 1680x1050, using
Core2duo T7500
4gB RAM
Nvidia 8400gs
and the bug too with AMD64
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Thanks everyone for keeping active on this bug report. Since this bug is
confirmed with recent nvidia cards since a while, please don't add
additional comments unless you can provide new technical informations
that can help the bug getting fixed. Reducing noise in this bug report
will probably
libx86 (0.99-1.2ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low
* Add xorg upstream fixes for cpuid, rdtsc, bsr, bsf opcodes, from upstream
http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git (LP: #147623).
- 66fa87292ef26bd0f464481287f3af992cd5741c
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This was a bug in x86emu code (amd64) in libx86, which is what usplash
uses to do video BIOS calls. Many thanks to mjg59 for explaining to me
how everything hangs together. :)
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Same for me, I still haven't found any way in Hardy to get the splash
screen working properly again.
TTYs are working when I don't change the default setup which means no
splash at all is shown. If I apply the workaround described above that
worked in Gutsy, TTYs are still blank and still only
I have the same problem here on the latest hardy-desktop-amd64 image. I
have a 8800GT and Core2 Duo E8400. The systems loads just fine, but
usplash just makes the screen say no signal and go into power saving
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On my side nothing has changed yet.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:27 AM, Steve Langasek
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There was a regression introduced in the initramfs-tools package
regarding vesafb introduced some time in the past week, this should be
fixed in initramfs-tools 0.85eubuntu34. You
There was a regression introduced in the initramfs-tools package
regarding vesafb introduced some time in the past week, this should be
fixed in initramfs-tools 0.85eubuntu34. You should be able to get ttys
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In Hardy with all current updates the mentioned workaround doesn't work
flawless anymore. At the first stage of the boot process where the
progress bar of the splash screen goes back and forth between left and
right everything seems as usual. But when the progress bar normally
would change to the
Just want to change my statement earlier about the vesafb workaround, as of
the latest kernel my ttys are all blank except for the blinking cursor.
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Has anyone run into a stability problem with un-commenting vesafb? I
don't believe I have since I started using it early in Feb. Apparently
that's what's keeping the hack from being implemented. 64 bit Hardy,
8400 card
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No problems here, i can switch between xorg running nvidia binary driver,
and my terminals without problem. Never had any problemswith usplash booting
up/shutting down either. The only thing that i havent tried would be
suspend, as this is on a big honking workstation rather than a laptop.
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After two weeks with this workaround I also did not run into any problem so far
(on Gutsy). TTYs and suspend to disk are working as usual (the TTYs have a
higher resolution now of course).
On Hardy I could not test suspend to disk so far but I quickly checked that
TTYs seem to work as expected.
Forget my last comment. I see the problems with vesafb, especially with
TV out. It seems as though uvesafb corrects the problems inherent in
vesafb. On a side note I have no problem with TV out except small text
is unreadable with such low resolution.
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Like Filiprino, I can confirm that I never get to GDM on the liveCD
without the work around. Once I used the work around and installed to
HD, GDM does come up.
I'm using a GeForce 8400 GS
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Confirming this. This happens with the 64-bit version only; with 32-bit the
boot splash works normally.
This happens to me on Gutsy and Hardy Alpha 6.
I fixed it in Hardy Alpha 6 by doing the following:
Edit /etc/initramfs-tools/modules, add a line: vesafb
Edit /etc/modules, add a line: vesafb
Forgot to mention my hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo E6600, nVidia 8600 GTS.
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Me, too.
Dell Latitude D630, NVIDIA GPU Quadro NVS 135M, 1440x900 screen, amd64
Hardy Heron Alpha4 + updates to date.
The System Administration Screens and Graphics control currently has
no nvidia driver listed as available (but it's the one that's running
according to /var/log/Xorg.0.log) and
Roger E Critchlow Jr : That's really strange, I have to admit. Thanks
for the clear informations you provided. I don't have any idea but wait
for this problem to get fixed, and then see if your card still has some
problems. I also suggest that you look for similar bugs with the same
nvidia card on
Saïvann Carignan : Thank you for the mentoring.
I just checked this original problem out against the Hardy Alpha4 Livecd
and discovered something even more disturbing.
As above, this is a Dell Latitude D630, NVIDIA Quadro NVS 135M (GeForce
8 series), 1440x900 screen, amd64 Hardy Alpha4.
If
Roger E Critchlow : Thanks for your comment. I see multiple bugs in your
comment, I suggest that you isolate each of them and speaks of the
symptoms in each appropriate bug report and (if the bug you are talking
of does not exist yet) to create new bug reports. Speaking of one type
of symptom for
This bug is still present for me in Hardy Alpha5.
I avoid the problems at the Live CD boot prompt by:
Typing F6 to access the boot options,
Typing a space to make the options visible,
Erasing the splash option,
Typing a return to launch the boot.
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Saïvann Carignan - I experienced the same problems as Roger. Actually
looks like just about everyone with a GeForce 8 series card
experienced this as evidence by all the posts in this bug.
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I confirmed Roger's observation, this bug is still present in Hardy
Alpha 5. With the number of 64bit nvidia 8xxx users out there we really
should fix this before the full release of Hardy, because although there
are workarounds many newbies won't be bothered to go to the time,
trouble, and effort
This problem still needs fixing in Gutsy also.
Pat_Primate wrote:
I confirmed Roger's observation, this bug is still present in Hardy
Alpha 5. With the number of 64bit nvidia 8xxx users out there we really
should fix this before the full release of Hardy, because although there
are
This bug is actually a high bug in the qa-hardy list so I think that
developers will really work hard on it, we don't need to ask for more
priority, it will be better for developers if this bug contains only
relevant informations about the bug itself. uvesa will probably not fix
this problem since
IT WORKS!!! IT WORKS!!!
The solution of Jan Rathmann works on Hardy 64bit with nVidia 8500!
1) added vga16fb, fbcon and vesafb to /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
2) outcommented the blacklisted vesafb and vga16fb in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer
3) added vga=795 (1280x1024) to the kernel
I can confirm this with current Hardy and Geforce 8800 GTS/512. Very
annoying especially with the LiveCD since it takes very long to boot.
Btw. the CD check doesn't work under this circumstances. It seems to
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The solution of Jan Rathmann almost works on Gutsy 64bit with nVidia 8600 GT.
Now, I have shell boot, it's smart ! ;)
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Saïvann Carignan, I can not reproduce this bug editing the kernel line
(disabling usplash). The system starts normally. Note: I am the original
reporter of usplash bug :-)
Attached to this message is a strace of usplash, amd64, on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy
Gibbon).
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I just bought a Geforce 8600 GT card and big surprise - I ran into this
bug ;-) (on Gutsy)
On my system I had only a blank screen during the boot process, after
GDM startet, everythings seemed to work as usual. The following
procedure gave me back the nice splash screen again (a combination of
Filiprino : Thanks for this information. Can you confirm that this issue
is really caused by usplash? You can know this by starting you computer
with usplash disabled and look if the problem still happens. If you can
reproduce the problem even when usplash is disabled, you probably have
another
I can also confirm the issue for Hardy, exactly the same as with Gutsy.
The solution to get the splash back I described in my previous comment does
also work in Hardy.
Kind regards,
Jan
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Uh, I have to say that I can't get to GDM. Some people here seems to get GDM
started, but me not. My screen stays black forever and ever.
And in Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 5 the bug is there too.
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The workaround worked for me as well.
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versions (amd64 and i386) 2008-02-24 of Hardy desktop and ran the
following commands to obtain the information in this attachment and the
next:
# sudo strace -o usplash-strace.i386 usplash -c
# sudo strace -o
I did a strace on my 7.10 box. Harveys and mine are almost the same.
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1295c1291
rt_sigreturn(0x2b5404320a20)= -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
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rt_sigreturn(0x7f6e801568e0)= -1
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I've got the same problem, infact i can't even boot of the livecd i had
to install of the alternate cd. In all honesty this is a huge bug, i
could imagine alot of people being put of ubuntu because the live cd not
working.
here are my specs.
Samsung SpinPoint T 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM
Saïvann:
Tested your workaround:
1. Modified /etc/usplash.conf (xres=1024; yres=768)
2. Modified /boot/grub/menu.lst (vga=795 and then 792)
3. Performed rest of steps
Results:
795 results in video error:
Undefined video mode number: 31b
Press ENTER to see video modes ...
792 results in
Harvey's workaround worked for my 1280x800 laptop (1024x768 in
/boot/grub/menu.lst). His ttys workaround didn't work, though. I had to
disable the splash to be able to login there.
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Harvey Muller's solution worked for me as well. For the first time in
months I actually saw usplash on boot!
Seems weird because I tried these exact same steps not too long ago and
it didn't work. Perhaps in combination with driver updates? I did just
upgrade to the latest nvidia drivers (171.05)
Harvey Muller : Thanks a lot for these informations.
Since the workaround I provided in description of the bug report can
cause additional problems, I removed it and just mention vesafb. It's a
better idea to keep usplash disabled than using the blacklisted vesafb
framebuffer driver. However,
I have the same problem, and it makes my monitor to go to the power
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I have this problem on 7.10 using 8600M GT.
I believe the importance might need to be upgraded; when the machine decides to
fsck, or if there is an error, I am left looking at a black screen for an
extremely long time sometimes with no idea of what's happening or what to do to
fix it, with only
Due to quantity of ubuntu users which has this bug and according to
Chris Lockfort comment, I raise the importance to High
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I completely agree, this is a massive bug, due to not knowing what's going
on when the system boots. When the machine needs to fsck, people are just
going to assume nothing is happening and cut off the power to the PC in the
middle of the check. That can be dangerous.
On Feb 6, 2008 12:37 PM,
Even worse, in some cases like mine X doesnt even come up due this problem
(which i assume is a clash between the dodgy fb driver and the nv driver),
the only reason i ever got around it was that i knew enough to try a
nosplash boot.
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I forgot to mention that the only way I was able to reach the live
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screen turns off and computer hangs. (Not sure if this info. is useful
or not.) I didn't realize I could try nosplash option for the live cd.
Dell 1420; 1440x900
thecure:
I have the same laptop. The easiest thing to do, until a permanent fix
is made, is to simply hit F6 when the menu loads from the LiveCD, and
then delete the 'splash' entry (and quiet too, if you want to see text
scroll by).
The LiveCD will boot into the native screen resolution of the
I added a workaround in the description of the bug report that worked
for me and a few persons. Can someone try that workaround and confirm if
you can get usplash to work with it?
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation GeForce
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