Graphics Resolution- Upgrade /Blank Screen after reboot

**Jonners59** · May 8th, 2013

bogan
any chance of helping me, please? Have had no responses to my follow up replies....

**bogan** · May 8th, 2013

Originally Posted by Jonners59

bogan
any chance of helping me, please? Have had no responses to my follow up replies....

Hi!,

You Posted:

$ lspci -vnn | grep -i VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation NV18M [GeForce4 488 Go] [10de:0187] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

That is a very ancient Video card and I can not find it listed by Nvidia.com even among Lecacy GPU's.

Guessing, if the Nouveau driver is not giving you enough graphics power, then probably the driver you need is 96.43.23 which has support for X.Org xserver versions 1.11 and 1.12.

However, MAFoElffen is the only one I know of, likely to be able to advise you, as he still runs NV GO series GPU's.

You mention: 'The previous kernal' and an update from 12.10 to 13.04 but it is not clear to me which version you are actually trying to use unsuccessfully, and which works better.

In any case, I suspect that card, whatever the driver, will not be compatible with any Kernal later than 12.04.1 and will not run even Unity 2D properly, but I could be mistaken.

Please Post, for both relevant versions:

Code:

uname -ar
cat /etc/lsb-release

Chao!, bogan.

**Lightning Dragon** · May 8th, 2013

HI,

Originally Posted by bogan

Hi!, Lighting Dragon,

Please describe what the symptom of trouble are, and at what stage they occur, Grub Menu, before or after login, or Desktop??

Without that info any response would be guesswork. Have you run nvidia settings, if so, what response ?

Have you uninstalled or remove --purged the previously installed drivers before installing a fresh one?

From Nvidia.com/Drivers I get the latest recommended certified driver for your GeForce 8600 GT is the 319.17; but the 304.88 should run OK, if installed correctly.

Please Post:

Code:

uname -r 
lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 vga 
/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

If they do not show the details correctly, then:

Code:

glxinfo | grep -i opengl # or: 
sudo lshw -C display

Have you checked that linux-headers-generic & linux-headers-(uname -r) are installed ?

Chao!, bogan.

I apologize for the lack of information. The errors usually occur when I do my first reboot after installing the drivers. I get a black screen, usually, with the tty log in screen. It is very rare when problems occur after I log in through a normal menu. After two times trying to purge nvidia, I decided to wipe the drive and install a newly downloaded Ubuntu 12.04.2 and am now operating on a fresh install. I haven't done anything but update the system yet. Here are the outputs of the commands you requested;

uname -r

Code:

3.5.0-28-generic

lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 vga

Code:

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G84 [GeForce 8600 GT] [10de:0402] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: eVga.com. Corp. Device [3842:c795]
    Kernel driver in use: nvidia
    Kernel modules: nvidia_173_updates, nouveau, nvidiafb

/usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p

Code:

OpenGL vendor string:   NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string:  2.1.2 NVIDIA 173.14.36

Not software rendered:    yes
Not blacklisted:          yes
GLX fbconfig:             yes
GLX texture from pixmap:  yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program:        yes
GL fragment program:      yes
GL vertex buffer object:  yes
GL framebuffer object:    yes
GL version is 1.4+:       yes

Unity 3D supported:       yes

And just to be safe, here are the ohter outputs;

glxinfo | grep -i opengl

Code:

The program 'glxinfo' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install mesa-utils

sudo lshw -C display

Code:

  *-display               
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: G84 [GeForce 8600 GT]
       vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: a1
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0
       resources: irq:19 memory:fb000000-fbffffff memory:e0000000-efffffff memory:f8000000-f9ffffff ioport:ec00(size=128) memory:fafe0000-faffffff

Oh, and I don't believe I mentioned it before, but I am running 32bit Ubuntu 12.04.

Thanks again!

**MAFoElffen** · May 9th, 2013

Originally Posted by Lightning Dragon

Hi,

I have been getting black screens here and there trying to install drivers for my card. Finally I began to wonder if I am installing the wrong driver/type. I have a AMD Athlon II X2 240 and a EVGA GeForce 8600 GT 1GB GPU, would this driver be the correct one?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-d...88-driver.html

I have also tried so many methods to get the drivers to install. I ended up having to reinstall Ubuntu 12.04 LTS eleven times so far, so I'm really desperate for help to get this installed right.

Thanks!

Ubuntu's nvidia-current...

**MAFoElffen** · May 9th, 2013

Please post this:

Code:

cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf

**Lightning Dragon** · May 9th, 2013

Hi,

Nvidia-current? I have tried all the drivers in the Additional Drivers tab, and none of them really work. Only the "recommended" one gets me my normal monitor size (1920 x 1080) but I don't have any GPU support at all.

And was I suppose to run that code? If so, here it is;

[SeatDefaults]
greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=ubuntu

EDIT

Yes! Yes, I think it worked!

I am sorry for the rather hefty edit here, but hopefully if it is actually installed correctly others can use this and if not, I and others will know what I did to either avoid or help recover from. So, here is what I did;

On my second Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS install (I have two drives; one for testing and one for actual use) I decided to use the drivers bogan recommended (319.17). I placed the file, after right clicking and making it executable, in my home directory so that I would not have to navigate to it via cd (because for some reason it said folders didn't exist when I did). Next, I followed the steps in this thread almost exactly;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2006716

I opened up my blacklist.conf via gedit;

Code:

 gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

And then I added the following to the VERY end of the file and saved it;

Code:

blacklist vga16fb 
blacklist nouveau 
blacklist rivafb 
blacklist nvidiafb 
blacklist rivatv

Next I ran the following command;

Code:

sudo apt-get --purge remove nvidia-*

And then rebooted (Shutting down and entering Recovery Mode did not work for me, only rebooting!) and held the SHIFT key down after the computer logo (NOT the Ubuntu logo!) appeared. It took me to a selection list to boot in normally, into recovery mode, into older linuxes and my Windows 7 hard drive. I selected recovery mode. Next, as I first thought I was meant to enter the root prompt screen, I went into boot normally, which warned me that I would be missing a few graphical things and whatnot. It brought me to the log in screen, normal, and everything was pretty zoomed in and fuzzy. I did not log in, I pressed CTRL+ALT+F1 and then logged in through this black prompt screen. Once I was logged in, I turned off xserver with the following commands;

Code:

sudo service lightdm stop

(Using Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS, so it, the "lightdm" part or shutting xserver down, might be different for others *if people are reading my reply*)

Once it told me lightdm was stopped, I did NOT cd to my file as I had no need to (but if others are reading, you will have to do that now and if you didn't set the .run file to executable, do so with "sudo chmod +x FILENAMEHERE" without quatations.) and then I ran the following command;

Code:

sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-319.17.run

(the part "NVIDIA-Linux-x86-319.17.run" will be different depending on which driver you are installing)

Once I typed that, I pressed enter and let it load through. It brought me to the installer screen and asked if I wanted to allow DKMS, say "yes" (because I accidentally said "no"! DOH!) and then it will ask if you want to run nvidia-xconfig to automatically update, once again, say "yes". Now it will install the driver and once it is done, you will be brought back to the black screen you just logged in moments ago. You might have to log back in. If not, simply run this command;

Code:

sudo service lightdm restart

(THIS MUST BE RUN AGAIN!)

And then I made the command "exit" and it brought me back to an empty black screen and then I pressed CTRL+ALT+F7 to bring me to the normal Ubuntu log in. However, I took this chance to shut down, turn on and press the power button to discharge (for me, this resets the whole system) and then I booted into Ubuntu normally and now I have the driver installed. Finally, before anything else, I followed the guide here;

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...04#post5227704

And saved the update-nvidia file I created to the desktop and then opened the terminal. Once in there, I ran the command;

Code:

gksudo nautilus

And then dragged the file from the desktop, update-nvidia (must be named that!), to the home directory which was "/home/LightningDragon". I rebooted just to be sure. And now my screen is normal, my graphics look pretty sharp, and nvidia xsettings is now in my dash and reports the following;

http://s9.postimg.org/tqpxtp7n3/Scre...8_23_26_36.png

YAY!

SO, now I have a few things to say and ask. Firstly, let me give a BIG thanks to bogan! I guess the other drivers were wrong because I have never been successful in my endeavours before this moment, so thank you so much bogan! Secondly, I would like to thank Cavsfan for the list and recovery advice and sdennie for the automatic update script!

Thirdly, I would like to thank everyone else who has attempted to help me and had the patience to do so, so thank you everyone!

Fourthly and lastly, I would like to ask how I can test to see if the driver is actually and fully installed correctly so I don't run into my usual problems?

**Jonners59** · May 9th, 2013

Originally Posted by bogan

Hi!,

You Posted:That is a very ancient Video card and I can not find it listed by Nvidia.com even among Lecacy GPU's.

Guessing, if the Nouveau driver is not giving you enough graphics power, then probably the driver you need is 96.43.23 which has support for X.Org xserver versions 1.11 and 1.12.

However, MAFoElffen is the only one I know of, likely to be able to advise you, as he still runs NV GO series GPU's.

You mention: 'The previous kernal' and an update from 12.10 to 13.04 but it is not clear to me which version you are actually trying to use unsuccessfully, and which works better.

In any case, I suspect that card, whatever the driver, will not be compatible with any Kernal later than 12.04.1 and will not run even Unity 2D properly, but I could be mistaken.

Please Post, for both relevant versions:

Code:

uname -ar
cat /etc/lsb-release

Chao!, bogan.

bogan
Yes, this machine is old. We use it for travelling.
I can not get in to the new, update to run the commands you wanted, so have used screen shots.

PHP Code:


958866_10151599098454630_801075672_o.jpg

shows the Grub menu with the kernels... I have moved the high-light to the bottoom to make them clear.

PHP Code:


958408_10151599096774630_967217244_o.jpg

shows the Menu if I select 3.8.0-19-generic (recovery mode). It is fuzzy and unreadable.

PHP Code:


948646_10151599097819630_1278785412_o.jpg

shows a shot of the screen after selecting 3.8.0-19-generic. This is B&W, but it slowly changes colour. Great for a 1960s/1970s party!!!!

Code:

italy@italy:~$ uname -arLinux italy 3.5.0-28-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Tue Apr 23 23:05:48 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
italy@italy:~$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=13.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=raring
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 13.04"
italy@italy:~$

If you think it is the video codec, which I have no doubts you are probably correct, how will I go about updating it if I can not get in to 3.8.0-19.....?

**bogan** · May 9th, 2013

Hi!, Jonners59,

I do not really have anything productive to add to my last Post #1232.

In your position I would do the following:

Check the system will boot and run correctly from a 12.04.1 Live CD/USB.

If so, then space permitting, create another partition and install it there.

Otherwise, format and install 12.04.1 in place of the 12.10/13.04.

If at present it does not run satisfactorily on the 3.5.0-28 Kernal, then beware updating the 12.04.1 to 12.04.2, which uses the 3.5.0 Kernal instead of the 3.2.0 version of 12.04.1.

Chao!, bogan.

**MAFoElffen** · May 9th, 2013

I meant my last post to go to Jonners59:

Jonners59, please post the output of:

Code:

cat /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf > ~/Documents/lightdm.conf
sudo cat /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log > ~/Documents/lightdm.log

@Bogan-
Take note that Jonners59 is one of three users that have similar problems.
- All three have old nividia not capable of 3D, only 2D...
- They are using either Nouveau, nividia-173 or less...
- They upgraded from 12.10 to 13.04... Not fresh installs.
- They get past the lightdm login and go to a black screen.

Two other users I got diagnosed past the point of Jonners59. What is happening?
-All three have good installs of video drivers.
-All 3 successfully get to the graphical login (lightdm).
- All 3 have good Xorg logs. The other 2 have hints (error) in the second to last line of the lightdm.log file...

After the successful login in lightdm, this file- "/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf" is supposed to tell lightdm to start a 2D session, because they can't do 3D...
One user that I have diagnosed passed this point does have "session=ubuntu-2d"in the lightdm.conf file, but for some reason the sessions is still issuing a call of "Session 1740 running command /usr/sbin/lightdm-session gnome-session --session=ubuntu" which is a 3D Session, instead of the configured 2D session... So the configuration file is correct, but the settings are being ignored.

For that person, I referred to launchpad. Not much I or Bogan can figure out passed a system ignoring what "should be correct" and that system issuing commands for something else. Jonners59 may or may not be the same// Those 2 files will confirm that.

So please have patience Bogan and Jonners59. I understand that this is not just something the user needs to normally "configure", should normally be aware of or has really has much control over. This is not a "usual" kind of problem. It is specific and new. Once we figure out the "what of it" that is going on, then we can get it solved and get around it with a work-around.

**Jonners59** · May 9th, 2013

@Bogan
Much appreciated....

MAFoElffen
Many thanks... I have done two machines, laptops already and they went smoothly, best upgrade/installs I have ever had since 2008. So shocked when this went 717s up. I want to get this sorted before I embark on the last two devices, both PCs and the most important of all our machines. Both home builds. Really appreciate all your support, patience and skills (both).

Info as per below. Taken from working kernel.
PS: Just noted the config file comment "greeter-session=unity-greeter" Note it talks of unity - I do not use Unity I use xfce/xUbuntu, which I think is Gnome3 (?). Don't know if that's a problem or not.

Code:

[SeatDefaults]greeter-session=unity-greeter
user-session=ubuntu
allow-guest=false

Code:

[+0.09s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/lightdm.log[+0.09s] DEBUG: Starting Light Display Manager 1.6.0, UID=0 PID=1226
[+0.09s] DEBUG: Loaded configuration from /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
[+0.09s] DEBUG: Using D-Bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.67s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xlocal
[+0.67s] DEBUG: Registered seat module xremote
[+0.67s] DEBUG: Adding default seat
[+0.67s] DEBUG: Starting seat
[+0.67s] DEBUG: Starting new display for greeter
[+0.67s] DEBUG: Starting local X display
[+0.68s] DEBUG: X server :0 will replace Plymouth
[+0.71s] DEBUG: Using VT 7
[+0.71s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0.log
[+0.71s] DEBUG: Writing X server authority to /var/run/lightdm/root/:0
[+0.71s] DEBUG: Launching X Server
[+0.71s] DEBUG: Launching process 1249: /usr/bin/X :0 -core -auth /var/run/lightdm/root/:0 -nolisten tcp vt7 -novtswitch -background none
[+0.71s] DEBUG: Waiting for ready signal from X server :0
[+0.84s] DEBUG: Acquired bus name org.freedesktop.DisplayManager
[+0.84s] DEBUG: Registering seat with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
[+4.97s] DEBUG: Got signal 10 from process 1249
[+4.97s] DEBUG: Got signal from X server :0
[+4.97s] DEBUG: Stopping Plymouth, X server is ready
[+5.75s] DEBUG: Connecting to XServer :0
[+5.75s] DEBUG: Starting greeter
[+5.76s] DEBUG: Started session 1324 with service 'lightdm-greeter', username 'lightdm'
[+6.28s] DEBUG: Session 1324 authentication complete with return value 0: Success
[+6.28s] DEBUG: Greeter authorized
[+6.28s] DEBUG: Logging to /var/log/lightdm/x-0-greeter.log
[+6.28s] DEBUG: Session 1324 running command /usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm-greeter-session /usr/sbin/unity-greeter
[+12.16s] DEBUG: Greeter connected version=1.6.0
[+12.16s] DEBUG: Greeter connected, display is ready
[+12.16s] DEBUG: New display ready, switching to it
[+12.16s] DEBUG: Activating VT 7
[+17.09s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for italy
[+17.09s] DEBUG: Started session 1854 with service 'lightdm', username 'italy'
[+17.19s] DEBUG: Session 1854 authentication complete with return value 0: Success
[+17.19s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user italy: Success
[+17.22s] DEBUG: User italy authorized
[+17.25s] DEBUG: Greeter start authentication for italy
[+17.25s] DEBUG: Session 1854: Sending SIGTERM
[+17.25s] DEBUG: Started session 1866 with service 'lightdm', username 'italy'
[+17.25s] DEBUG: Session 1854 terminated with signal 15
[+17.34s] DEBUG: Session 1866 authentication complete with return value 0: Success
[+17.34s] DEBUG: Authenticate result for user italy: Success
[+17.37s] DEBUG: User italy authorized
[+924.03s] DEBUG: Greeter requests session xubuntu
[+924.03s] DEBUG: Using session xubuntu
[+924.03s] DEBUG: Stopping greeter
[+924.03s] DEBUG: Session 1324: Sending SIGTERM
[+925.81s] DEBUG: Greeter closed communication channel
[+925.81s] DEBUG: Session 1324 exited with return value 0
[+925.81s] DEBUG: Greeter quit
[+927.30s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 1000
[+927.30s] DEBUG: Calling setresgid
[+927.30s] DEBUG: Calling setresuid
[+927.31s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges
[+927.31s] DEBUG: Calling setresuid
[+927.31s] DEBUG: Calling setresgid
[+927.75s] DEBUG: Dropping privileges to uid 1000
[+927.75s] DEBUG: Calling setresgid
[+927.76s] DEBUG: Calling setresuid
[+927.76s] DEBUG: Writing /home/italy/.dmrc
[+927.86s] DEBUG: Restoring privileges
[+927.86s] DEBUG: Calling setresuid
[+927.86s] DEBUG: Calling setresgid
[+927.99s] DEBUG: Starting session xubuntu as user italy
[+927.99s] DEBUG: Session 1866 running command /usr/sbin/lightdm-session startxfce4
[+928.68s] DEBUG: Registering session with bus path /org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session0

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