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[Expired for linux (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
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       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

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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