system hangs after new instalation

[rnerwein]

hello

after installing
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
# DISTRIB_RELEASE=4.10
# DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
# DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS"

on my:

tschang
description: Desktop Computer
product: Aspire X3200
vendor: Acer
version: R01-A3
serial: 983ORE5DAP83904F133003
width: 64 bits
capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 vsyscall64 vsyscall32
configuration: administrator_password=disabled boot=normal chassis=desktop power-on_password=disabled
*-core
description: Motherboard
physical id: 0
version: JM800QLU-2G
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
physical id: 0
version: R01-A3 (07/31/2008)
size: 128KiB
capacity: 448KiB
capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd
int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen
int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot
biosbootspecification

--> when i select the new installation the system hangs forever with a black
screen. i turn of my pc and after reboot i select "edit" in the grub menue
and change the startup to single user and rw.
on the console screen now i can see the folowing messages:

nouveau 0000:02:00 invalid ROM contents
nouveau 0000:02:00 no valid BIOS image found
nouveau 0000:02:00 Register 0x00004030 not found in PLL

when i remove the xorg.conf --> same result.
but some times the system show me the UBUNTU screen with the moving
dots - but even for ever.

====> ( windows, suse, solaris10 and ubuntu lucid are running fine on this pc.)

VGA is:
*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: C77 [GeForce 8200
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
version: a2
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0^M
resources: irq:20 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:d0000000-dfffffff(prefetchable)
*-display^
description: VGA compatible controller
product: G98 [GeForce 9300 GE]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
version: a1
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0
resources: irq:16 memory:f8000000-f8ffffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff(prefetchable)
memory:f6000000-f7ffffff ioport:ac00(size=128)
memory:f9000000-f901ffff(prefetchable)



help - any idea

[Bashing-om]

rnerwein; Hi !

I would have expected "single user mode" to boot up.....

Uhmmm..how bout seeing if you can boot up with the "nomodeset" option in the grub command line of the booting kernel ?

Then, once booted in, with the additional drivers utility see if a proprietary driver can be installed ? nouveau = open source

hth <==BDQ