PDA

View Full Version : [SOLVED] nVidia logo showing up at boot after upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10



gwi
October 17th, 2010, 08:36 AM
Yesterday I upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10 (x86_64). The upgrade itself succeeded, but now just before the login screen appears there is an almost fullscreen nVidia beta logo showing up. With 10.04 it did not.

Driver version is 260.19.06, graphics card is a GeForce GTS 250.

How can I hide the logo? I can't find a setting for it in the nVidia X server settings.

realzippy
October 17th, 2010, 10:08 AM
Strange,I have not seen the nvidia logo for a long time.
Anyway,open xorg.conf:


gksudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

and add to the "Device" section:

Option "NoLogo" "True"

so it looks like:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection

gwi
October 17th, 2010, 10:56 AM
I haven't seen the logo in a long time as well. And I was under the impression that xorg.conf was no longer used, that HAL was used (as the comment in the remaining xorg.conf says). :oops:

The distribution upgrade copied the original xorg.conf into xorg.conf.dist-upgrade-201010162058. That one does not contain the NoLogo option. Adding it to xorg.conf however solves the issue. Did nVidia change something?

Thanks anyway.

realzippy
October 17th, 2010, 04:29 PM
xorg.conf is needed when running nvidia or amd(fglrx) drivers,
only the free drivers work without xorg.conf;they are initialised
by KMS.HAL makes the job for the input devices (the formerly "input device section" in xorg.conf.....)
Minimal xorg.conf for nvidia:

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
DefaultDepth 24
EndSection

Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

gwi
October 19th, 2010, 05:00 PM
I liked the input device section. I had a custom setting (swap the buttons of my Wacom Graphire stylus). I now have to use a separate script for that...

realzippy
October 19th, 2010, 05:34 PM
You still can use an input device section,eg:


# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig: version 260.19.12 (buildmeister@builder101) Fri Oct 8 13:54:10 PDT 2010

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout0"
Screen 0 "Screen0"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
#generated from default
Identifier "Mouse0"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "auto"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
# generated from default
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 28.0 - 33.0
VertRefresh 43.0 - 72.0
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection