HP DV2700 laptop, ubuntu, lubuntu nvidia video card problems

[aaronr2]

I am trying to get ubuntu 14.04 on my laptop. hp dv2700, nvidia geforce 7150m, 4gb ram, amd 64 bit processor.

After installing the system works but the video is very very glitchy, odd colors in the wrong places, yellow boxes in the screen, very slow response.

I did the sudo apt-get update and upgrade then installed the driver needed in the additional driver menu, then after reboot I get a black screen, no menus, no login, nothing but blank.

I thought maybe ubuntu was not going to work for me so I tried mint, even worse video issue, black screen with a white box in the top left 1/3 of the screen.

Then tonight I tried lubuntu, same thing as mint, black screen with the top 1/3 a white box.


I have googled this and followed instructions with no luck.

Any ideas or things to try? It worked great on ubuntu 12.10 but no one upgraded it and support ran out.

[aaronr2]

No ideas at all?

[Vladlenin5000]

Well, the first idea that comes to mind is to stop distro hopping. All those you tried are the same under the hood and the available drivers are also the same. Everything that matters is really the same. That "Windows mentality" of trowing software after software hoping that some will stick isn't conducive here.

Now, your machine... It's old but should be enough for standard Ubuntu. Are you sure about the graphics? Anywhere I looked I see an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 mentioned, not Nvidia. What driver have you installed exactly?

[kc1di]

you need to install the correct nvidia proprietary drive for that card. go to software center >edit>additional drivers and install the recommended driver.
you may need to use the nomodeset parameter in the boot line to get to it the first time. good luck.
I believe the driver you want is the 346.xx here is a page that can help.

[aaronr2]

Sorry for the late reply, I was away for a bit.

I was "distro hopping" because I thought maybe 14.04 was too much for the hardware.

I went to the additional drivers tool and added the correct driver. After which the system boots only to a black screen with no graphics, cannot even access the terminal after the driver is added.


Yes, I am sure it is Nvidia graphics.

[Bashing-om]

aaronr2; Hello;

We are here to help;
Let's get an idea of what is going on, and what should be happening that is not:
post back the outputs of terminal commands:

lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12
sudo lshw -C display
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log

Maybe all we need to do is clean things up and then install the correct graphics driver.

it could happen

[aaronr2]

aaronr2; Hello;

We are here to help;
Let's get an idea of what is going on, and what should be happening that is not:
post back the outputs of terminal commands:

lspci -vnn | grep VGA -A 12

00:12.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]:Nvidia corporation c67 [Geforce 7150M/ nforce 630M] [10de:0531] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Sub system: hewlett-Packard company device [103c:30d6]
flags : bus master, 66mhz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
memory at f4000000 (32bit, non prefechable) [size=16m]
memory at d000000 (64bit, prefetchable) [size=256m]
memory at f000000 64bit, (non prefetchable) [size=16m]
[virtual] expansion ROM at f1000000 [disabled] [size=128k]
capabilities:access denied
kernel driver in use: nouveau

00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: advanced micro devices, inc. [AMD] k8 [athlon64/opteron] hypertransport technology configuration [1022:1100]
flags: fast devsel


sudo lshw -C display

description: vga compatible controller
product: c67 geforce 7150m/ nforce 630m
vendor: NVIDIA corporation
physical id:12
bus info: pci@0000:00:12.0
version a2
width 64 bits
clock 66mhz
capabilities pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
configuration:driver=noveau latency=0
resources:irq:42 memory:f4000000-f4fffff memory:d000000-dffffff memory:f000000-f0fffff memory:f1000000-f101ffff





cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log
bash: cat/var/log/Xorg.0.log: no such file or directory

Maybe all we need to do is clean things up and then install the correct graphics driver.

it could happen

Now this is a fresh install, as soon as I add the Nvidia driver and reboot it goes to a blank screen on boot, cant access terminal or anything.

[Bashing-om]

aaronr2; Well;

As you can see presently the opensource driver 'nouveau' is installed.
Want to try and install the Nvidia proprietary driver available in ubunu's software repository ? - Worth a shot -

sudo service lightdm stop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current nvidia-settings

Reboot the system, and now do you boot to the GUI ?

Maybe yes

could be not so yes

[alex375]

and /var/log/dmesg.0 would be cool
scanned on first recovery after black screen

[aaronr2]

and /var/log/dmesg.0 would be cool
scanned on first recovery after black screen

typing in this gets permission denied