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    Boot/Video problem - Solved

    About a week after updating to 11.04 beta 1 from 10.10, there was another update and now I can't boot. About 6 seconds after grub, I get some colors across the top third of the screen, and that's it for the display. The hard drive light looks like it continues to boot but the display does not recover.

    I have a AMD 64 bit X4 Hp computer with Nvidia gforce 9100. The coputer is doing dua' boot with windows 7 being the other OS.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks in advance,

    wmrobins
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    #2
    Re: Boot/Video problem

    It sounds like the video driver is misbehaving. Can you reinstall it?
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      #3
      Re: Boot/Video problem

      I'm not sure which driver to use. As I recall there were several Nvidia driver versions
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        #4
        Re: Boot/Video problem

        At the user's prompt, you can enter:


        Code:
        glxinfo | grep NVIDIA

        and it will show you which driver is installed, unless you are using nouveau.
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          #5
          Re: Boot/Video problem

          glxinfo | grep NVIDIA and glxinfo | grep nouveau returns "Error: unable to open display"
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            #6
            Re: Boot/Video problem

            Well, that's consistent with a broken driver installation.

            Did you use the "Additional Hardware" feature in the System menu, or did you manually install a downloaded driver?
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              #7
              Re: Boot/Video problem

              I updated. (apt-get dist-upgrade)
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                #8
                Re: Boot/Video problem

                There might be a log file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log that tells the driver version that it tried to run.
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                  #9
                  Re: Boot/Video problem

                  It's trying to run NVIDIA. But that module does not exist.
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                    #10
                    Re: Boot/Video problem

                    I got it! I broke out a laptop and went
                    into kpackagekit to see what drivers/modules were there with NVIDIA in them. Back at the troubled desktop I installed nvidia-current. It works, but not as smoothly as before.

                    Thanks for the help dibl,

                    wmrobins
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                      Re: Boot/Video problem - Solved

                      Hehe, that's one reason I dual boot and always have an older and working version available.
                      That way I can get help.

                      I must say that my upgrade a couple of days ago went less smooth, I couldn't even log in to the CLI.
                      So using the old 8.04 install I downloaded the iso and reinstalled from a USB stick.
                      Luckily I have a separate /home partition.
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