I did some more work on this:
- I could get 14.04 to install from a cold start (power off),
instead of a reboot
- Now that it is installed, it always boots from a power off
state. Doing a restart, 50% of the time it freezes during boot
- when it freezes, it's dead, I cannot get the console to come up
per Richard's suggestion below.
All this is using the nouveau driver, Have not had the chance yet
to install the proprietary nvidia.
Looks to me maybe some power or hardware init on the graphics
card.
On 03/04/2014 12:05 PM, Richard Elkins wrote:
Lutz,
Sometimes, the nvidia card is sufficiently old that ubiquity and X
cannot figure it out automatically. I realize that your time is
important to you but have you tried using Ctrl-Alt-Fn (n = 1..6)
to get a command line login from `getty`? This should work in
spite of the graphics issues with the primary tty X session. It
would be useful to collect the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file for
attaching to a bug report. Did X try to use the current nvidia
card driver? Or did it completely blow it and select fb (frame
buffer), intel, modesetting, or something else?
If Ctrl-Alt-Fn fails (X is hosed, even for keyboard and/or vga
use), then, if you are comfortable with this, you could try
booting up in lower-res (vga) or single-user mode (command-line
only) in order to try to see what's going wrong and take remedial
action. You should still have network connectivity so manual
`apt-get` installs are an option to remedy the situation.
Also, please note URL http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver
The above link is for the latest nvidia display driver for Linux
that seems to cover your card:
GeForce 400 series:
GTX 480, GTX 470, GTX 465, GTX 460 SE, GTX 460, GTS 450, GT 440,
GT 430, GT 420, 405
GeForce 400M series:
GTX 485M, GTX 480M, GTX 470M, GTX 460M, GT 445M, GT 435M, GT
425M, GT 420M, GT 415M, 410M - See more at:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver#sthash.AC4uN4zO.dpuf
* GeForce 400 series: GTX 480, GTX 470, GTX 465, GTX 460 SE, GTX
460, GTS 450, GT 440, GT 430, GT 420, 405
* GeForce 400M series: GTX 485M, GTX 480M, GTX 470M, GTX 460M, GT
445M, GT 435M, GT 425M, GT 420M, GT 415M, 410M
GeForce 400 series:
GTX 480, GTX 470, GTX 465, GTX 460 SE, GTX 460, GTS 450, GT 440,
GT 430, GT 420, 405
GeForce 400M series:
GTX 485M, GTX 480M, GTX 470M, GTX 460M, GT 445M, GT 435M, GT
425M, GT 420M, GT 415M, 410M - See more at:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver#sthash.AC4uN4zO.dpuf
GeForce 400 series:
GTX 480, GTX 470, GTX 465, GTX 460 SE, GTX 460, GTS 450, GT 440,
GT 430, GT 420, 405
GeForce 400M series:
GTX 485M, GTX 480M, GTX 470M, GTX 460M, GT 445M, GT 435M, GT
425M, GT 420M, GT 415M, 410M - See more at:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-275.09.07-driver#sthash.AC4uN4zO.dpuf
You might try installing it and see if Xubuntu/XFCE/X works better
with this driver.
Best wishes,
Richard
On 03/04/2014 08:04 AM, Lutz
Andersohn wrote:
Good to know.
I just tried to install on a PC (not a laptop which
unexpectedly became available) and the graphics crashes:
screen is totally garbled when trying to boot from the DVD at
the first screen (selection whether to try or install). During
the boot I got some console messages about GPU lockup
switching to fb??? (didn't catch the whole thing). I don't
really know whether the system is still responsive cause I
can't click anything.
Graphics card is an NVidia Quadro 410 running on an AMD
Athlon II CPU (Dell Inspiron 570)
On 03/04/2014 01:54 AM, André Nording wrote:
Hi all,
tested the scroll down on a Dell XT2 Convertible and an
logitech RX 300 Mouse. The windows do not jump on my
installation. Gnumeric is not jumping also.
Regards
André
On 03.03.2014 22:13, Lutz Andersohn wrote:
I couldn't install on real hardware, only on VirtualBox.
Couple of observations
The installer DVD still displays 13.10. Not sure when this
is planned to change, just thought I mention it. I was
confused the first time I installed alpha 2, I epxected
something like "14.04 A2"
There seems to be something funny going with the mouse
scroll wheel: if I scroll down too fast, the menu first
jumps up before it scrolls down. As a result, when at the
bottom of a list and still scrolling it keeps looping over
the last few entries. Very annoying to me. I noticed it
first in the applet list trying to install a new panel
applet. When I moved the mousewheel real fast in the file
open dialog from gnumeric, I could make the main gnumeric
window jump to different places on the desktop.
This is VirtualBox, though, so it may be a virtualBox driver
problem but I have not seen that in other version of xubuntu
under virtual box.
Othrwise it looks great.
I do have a question:
is anybody testing the behavior of NVidia Optimus support
(bumblebee)with the kernel that gets released? I did see
some posts that bumblebee has a probem with kernel 3.13 and
bumblebee not working would throw me a curve ball when I
need to upgrade my main machine because as 12.04 EOL.
Ditto with wireless. In all my previous updates wireless
support never worked out of the box.
I realise this is probably the ubuntu folks and beyond
xubuntu's scope but may be a consideration for kernel
selection (I read a lot of bumblebee problems with kernel
3.13).
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