New install and Nvidia

[Mark Fraser]

On Saturday 11 Jun 2011 20:48:03 Waleed Hamra wrote:
> On 06/11/2011 02:49 PM, Mark Fraser wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 Jun 2011 08:23:07 Alvin wrote:
> >> On Thursday 09 June 2011 09:13:40 Mark Fraser wrote:
> >>> I've tried twice in two days to do a new OEM install of Kubuntu 11.04.
> >>> Both times it has failed after I have installed the proprietary Nvidia
> >>> drivers with "Additional Drivers".
> >>> 
> >>> I did an OEM install, rebooted, installed the updates, rebooted and
> >>> then installed the Nvidia drivers. After rebooting again, the splash
> >>> screen was just a series of black/white lines and the KDE splash
> >>> stopped part way through displaying the KDE logo.
> >>> 
> >>> I have searched the Internet and found this on Kubuntu Forums,
> >>> http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3116528.0. Which wasn't
> >>> much help.
> >> 
> >> What model nvidia card do you have, what version of the drivers did you
> >> install and what method (jockey-text?) did you use?
> > 
> > It is either a Nvidia 7200 or 7300 series card. I used jockey-kde to
> > install the drivers.
> > 
> > Will check on the driver version next time I turn it on.
> 
> ok then. explain what you mean by "stopped part way through displaying the 
> KDE logo."?

It means that the KDE splash screen stops just as it is displaying the 5th 
icon - the KDE. Sometimes it will end up displaying a black screen with just 
the pointer.

> does that mean the process hanged? or that X shut down after reaching
> that stage?
> secondly, if the computer is still usable after this failed login, try
> and enter a TTY (CTRL+SHIFT+F1), login, and make a copy of your X log,
> that you can copy/paste to the list.
> 
> cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/
> 
> then, login from a live cd, or any installed system that works, and
> attach this log to us, or preferably, use a pastebin and send us the link.

http://paste.ubuntu.com/625021/

> another thing to check, run the following command in a terminal, and
> give us the result:
> 
> cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module  270.41.19  Mon May 16 23:31:36 
PDT 2011
GCC version:  gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4) 

lspci says that the card is a:
nVidia Corporation G72 [GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS] (rev a1)

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