Stuck at "checking battery state..." in ubuntu 12.04. Please help.

[agentfortyseven]

IMO, this is a video driver issue.

What do you have for a video card?
You can download and install video driver and make other changes from a console window.

I have NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M.
You think this procedure won't work?

sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup
or
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
then reboot

Can you please tell me how to download, install and make other changes from the console window.

[sdowney717]

you can use wget command to download an nvidia driver from their website.
I have done it before.
the idea is download it, then install from the boot console window.

You just have to log in from the boot menu screen to a command prompt with networking enabled.

You need to find the details for getting this file using a google search. Or maybe someone else will know a better way to fix this.

to install you navigate to the directory and type
./nameoffile.run
ls shows the files in a directory. cd lets you move into the directory, etc...

You got an error running that command so you likely do not have the xorg file in etc folder.

[sdowney717]

here is a site that talks about doing this.
there may be another way.

http://superuser.com/questions/48499...n-ubuntu-12-04

[agentfortyseven]

alright I will try to do that and let you know if it works.

[dino99]

for a quadro card, you need either:
- the nvidia driver from the site
- or install "nouveau" which work also with the quadro cards

http://askubuntu.com/questions/93809...latitude-e6500

See /usr/share/doc/nvidia-current-updates/README.txt.gz for a complete list
of supported GPUs and PCIIDs

[NikTh]

Hi,
nouveau (open source driver for nvidia) is pre-installed. Have you tried it ?

You can execute the commands below to make sure that no nvidia-proprietary driver left in your system and nouveau will be used.

sudo apt-get purge nvidia-*
sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf # if the file does not exist , then is OK 
sudo apt-get install nvidia-common ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get install --reinstall xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

and at the end , give this command to reboot your pc

sudo reboot

If everything work ok , then is not needed to install additional-proprietary nvidia driver.

Thanks

[sdowney717]

Hi,
If everything work ok , then is not needed to install additional-proprietary nvidia driver.

Thanks

I really cant imagine running that driver.
How well does it do games and video?

[dannyboy79]

i get that same checking battery state message on my headless server. it's because I uninstalled a desktop manager. I am guessing lightdm was uninstalled when you uninstalled that gnome thingy. try to reinstall lightdm.

also, what happens if at the checking battery state screen, you hit ctrl-alt-f1, login textually. then at the prompt enter this
sudo service start lightdm

[sdowney717]

i get that same checking battery state message on my headless server. it's because I uninstalled a desktop manager. I am guessing lightdm was uninstalled when you uninstalled that gnome thingy. try to reinstall lightdm.

also, what happens if at the checking battery state screen, you hit ctrl-alt-f1, login textually. then at the prompt enter this
sudo service start lightdm

the xorg.0.log file should reveal the problem, if he looks at it.

you can from the root directory

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log |more

to see it. space bar and enter key will move it along.

[agentfortyseven]

I have to say I am overwhelmed by your help and support guys. So thanks a lot.