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[Omer Akram <om26er@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ya this is fixed for me on today's daily build

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Ramon Rocha <ra.rocha.jr@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I tested with the 3/10 image and it no longer turns off the monitor or
> freezes at the splash screen.  I am still frozen at this screen though:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/531027
>
> --
> Lucid Alpha3 live cd failing to boot properly, monitor powers off during
> boot.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/529563
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> Status in “xserver-xorg-video-nouveau” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
>
> Hello,
> Ubuntu Lucid Alpha 3 Live CD.
> The problem I am having is the live cd will only get as far as the cd's
> boot menu, and when I select either install or live cd, something shuts off
> my monitor and the power button blinks (no output to monitor I think). I
> tried this several times without setting special boot options, and several
> times with random boot options but I still can't get it too keep power to my
> monitor. This also happens with the check cd for errors option. Being that I
> have no display afterwards and the live cd is session only I have no log
> files or error messages to look at. If it is not the Nouveau drivers, then
> it might be ubiquity or xorg crashing my display.
>
> It is not a problem with my monitor, because I am running Lucid alpha3 as
> we speak. Also, virtualbox ose in Karmic had no problem running the iso
> image of Lucid-alpha3. I md5'ed the iso and it checks out fine. The problem
> is only booting the cd from my PC. Another observation is the lack of
> display does not prevent Lucid Alpha 3 live cd from booting into a live
> session, because after 5 minutes or more I can here the ubuntu login sound
> eventually.
>
> I finally managed to get alpha 3 installed on my computer, but to do that I
> had to perform the upgrade (update-manager -d) over my 9.10 installation. I
> couldn't use a free partition like I was hoping. Prior to the Karmic to
> Lucid upgrade, I installed the proprietary Nvidia graphics card driver to
> ensure I had working drivers after the upgrade. I believe the driver series
> was 185. This driver does not show up in the window of the hardware manager
> in Lucid alpha3. Instead, it shows I have two of them activated, but not
> currently in use. The names of them are "version current" and
> "nVida/Riva/TNT/GeForce".
>
> My graphics card is a MSI branded Nvidia GeForce 8400 GS PCI Express x16. A
> list of my hardware is included with this bug report.
> thanks,
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Sun Feb 28 11:51:24 2010
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.15+git20100219+9b4118d-0ubuntu2
> ProcEnviron:
>  LANG=en_US.utf8
>  SHELL=/bin/bash
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-14.20-generic
> SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
> Uname: Linux 2.6.32-14-generic i686
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