This also fails with a 10.04.3 LTS RC build from 16 July 2011. After several minutes, with fairly frequent disk activity, disk activity ceases with a blank screen. The system does have 11.04 installed now.
(The 10.04.3 RC DVD does boot and seems to run well in some other Dell, gBox, and Shuttle systems I've tried this DVD on. There is a problem with a Averatec laptop, which I've reported in a separate bug - on the Averatec the screen size is detected wrong, and there are some video problems.) ** Description changed: + Note: This also affects the upcoming 10.04.3 update - see #9. + I have installed the alpha-1 version of 'natty' 11.04 on a Compaq Presario SR1000 system (System Number EX325-AA-ABA) (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. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/707755 Title: Xorg usually won't start on Compaq system with nVidia Corporation C51 [GeForce 6150 LE] and nVidia chipset To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/707755/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
