arthoc
April 28th, 2013, 10:45 PM
Hi,
I've recently updated from 12.10 to 13.04 and encountered the issue that my laptop (Intel i5 CPU w/ Intel graphics card + nVidia GT640M LE) doesn't boot correctly anymore. To be precise: After the GRUB-menu, the screen turns black. "nomodeset" as startup-parameter or going via "Advanced boot -> Recovery -> Boot normally" solves the issue but messes up my GUI afterwards.
The login-screen looks totally fine, but after that my main-screen (normally in a MacOS design) looks f... up like this:
241929
Not exactly happy with that.
Also, the GUI is extremely irresponsive, tends to freeze (had do force a restart twice while writing this very post) and the fans go like crazy (I suppose the nVidia card is running at full clock speed). Also noticeable is that whenever I move my cursor to one of the screens sides, the whole image moves ever so slightly.
I've tried removing and re-installing the nvidia-current driver, but unfortunately, this didn't do much.
Driver-info:
$ jockey-text -lkmod:nvidia_310_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_313_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_304_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_310 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_304 - nvidia_304 (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)
I'm not a Linux-expert, therefore I'm somewhat clueless what's wrong with the drivers. Whats the difference between "Disabled" and "Not in use" in the last command's output?
Something else I figured out while testing some stuff:
root@ubuntu:~$ glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
ERROR (593): Could not obtain RGB visual with requested properties
root@ubuntu:~$ optirun glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0x21
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 640M LE/PCIe/SSE2
e.g., the Intel-graphics aren't configured correctly?
Can anyone help me here?
/edit:
The weird look (no transparency etc. as in the screen) as well as the glxspheres-issue vanished after following the instructions provided here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2042259&page=3), yet the system still boots into a blank screen w/o "nomodeset"... any my panel at the top of the screen is still missing (as you may have noticed on the screenshot).
I've recently updated from 12.10 to 13.04 and encountered the issue that my laptop (Intel i5 CPU w/ Intel graphics card + nVidia GT640M LE) doesn't boot correctly anymore. To be precise: After the GRUB-menu, the screen turns black. "nomodeset" as startup-parameter or going via "Advanced boot -> Recovery -> Boot normally" solves the issue but messes up my GUI afterwards.
The login-screen looks totally fine, but after that my main-screen (normally in a MacOS design) looks f... up like this:
241929
Not exactly happy with that.
Also, the GUI is extremely irresponsive, tends to freeze (had do force a restart twice while writing this very post) and the fans go like crazy (I suppose the nVidia card is running at full clock speed). Also noticeable is that whenever I move my cursor to one of the screens sides, the whole image moves ever so slightly.
I've tried removing and re-installing the nvidia-current driver, but unfortunately, this didn't do much.
Driver-info:
$ jockey-text -lkmod:nvidia_310_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_313_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_304_updates - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_310 - NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library (Proprietary, Disabled, Not in use)
kmod:nvidia_304 - nvidia_304 (Proprietary, Enabled, Not in use)
I'm not a Linux-expert, therefore I'm somewhat clueless what's wrong with the drivers. Whats the difference between "Disabled" and "Not in use" in the last command's output?
Something else I figured out while testing some stuff:
root@ubuntu:~$ glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
ERROR (593): Could not obtain RGB visual with requested properties
root@ubuntu:~$ optirun glxspheres
Polygons in scene: 62464
Visual ID of window: 0x21
Context is Direct
OpenGL Renderer: GeForce GT 640M LE/PCIe/SSE2
e.g., the Intel-graphics aren't configured correctly?
Can anyone help me here?
/edit:
The weird look (no transparency etc. as in the screen) as well as the glxspheres-issue vanished after following the instructions provided here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2042259&page=3), yet the system still boots into a blank screen w/o "nomodeset"... any my panel at the top of the screen is still missing (as you may have noticed on the screenshot).