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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

Martin O'Mahony, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been
any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an
issue? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development
release of Ubuntu? ISO images are available from
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

If it remains an issue, could you please provide the information
following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelBoot ?

Thank you for your understanding.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/713867

Title:
  Live-CD and Installed Ubuntu freeze on boot with GeForce 210 / Nouveau

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau

  I bought a new graphics adaptor to replace my old ATI one. The model I
  chose is a Gainward GeForce 210 1024MB DDR2 HDMI.

  Upon installing the new adaptor my Ubuntu 10.10 64bit system froze on
  reboot. I tried booting from the 64 and 32 bit CDs always producing
  the same result - freezing. It freezes right when starting to boot
  from GRUB - producing just a blinking cursor in the upper left corner
  of an otherwise empty screen.

  This has not changed with the lastest alpha 2 CD of Natty, either.

  After changing the grub command line options to "nouveau.blacklist=1"
  (as suggested somewhere on the web) I could boot my system and install
  the NVIDIA driver instead which works fine, however, I no longer get a
  bootsplash. Consecutively I made it a default in /etc/default/grub to
  keep my system from freezing.

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nouveau.blacklist=1"

  I did an lspic -vv, maybe it helps:

  01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: CardExpert Technology Device 1401
   Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
   Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
   Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
   Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
   Region 0: Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
   Region 1: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
   Region 3: Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
   Region 5: I/O ports at 9000 [size=128]
   Expansion ROM at d1000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
   Capabilities: <access denied>
   Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

  Anyway, I thought I might report this bug as a frozen system might be
  a real showstopper for any Linux newbies. I'd be grateful, if somebody
  could look into this.

  I already reported this as an addition to bug #661235 but I was asked
  to start a new bug report as it seems to differ form the situation
  originally described there.

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