Public bug reported:
I have installed the alpha-1 version of 'natty' 11.04 on a Hewlett-
Packard system originally sold as "Microsoft Windows XP Media Center
Edition 2005", and updated the Ubuntu software up to this morning. Often
it will not complete startup of Xorg - in this case, the screen is black
except for a narrow white band at the top. The failure is shown in
Xorg.0.log.
The display controller is: VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation
C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] (rev a2)
I installed the 32-bit Dec 2 alpha-1 version of 'natty', then updated
this (see below for problems encountered).
Ubuntu version and kernel version
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=natty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu natty (development branch)"
Linux hp 2.6.37-12-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 5 18:42:49 UTC 2011 i686
athlon i386 GNU/Linux
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
cpu MHz : 1000.000
Installation was a hassle. I tried daily builds from the 12th and 18th
of January, and ran into various problems: First, I couldn't partition
the disk, due to a strange MBR (apparently) from the MS-Windows software
on the computer. Then, one of the installers simply hung at some point.
Finally, I partitioned and formatted the disk with a Puppy Linux CD,
then installed from the December 2 original Alpha-1 'natty' CD. I did
re-format the partitions I had created with Puppy, to make sure there
wasn't any incompatibility in file-system details. After this, I updated
the system, at around the 18th or 19th of the month. I installed
openssh-server so that I can access the system over my LAN, when Xorg
won't start.
I haven't tried a 64-bit version yet, and don't really plan to do so.
I'm attaching a tar file with /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, lsmod
output, lspci output, Xorg.0.log, and Xorg.0.log.old
I installed the nvidia driver recommended when the Gnome session first
started.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: hp media-center nvidia
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Title:
Xorg usually won't start on HP system with nVidia Corporation C51
[GeForce 6150 LE] and nVidia chipset
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