[nv9400gm] X fails to start on MacBook 5,2

Binary package hint: ubiquity

Booting from the latest daily liveCD of karmic fails on a MacBook 5,2. Everything loads fine except for the graphical environment, which crashed saying it can't find any displays.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Sep 1 09:53:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20090901)
Package: ubiquity 1.99.13
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
SourcePackage: ubiquity
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic x86_64

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Alpha amd64 (20090901)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBook5,2
Package: xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: amd64
PccardctlIdent:

PccardctlStatus:

ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper initrd=/casper/initrd.lz quiet splash -- maxcpus=1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-8.28-generic
RelatedPackageVersions:
 xserver-xorg 1:7.4+3ubuntu5
 libgl1-mesa-glx 7.6.0~git20090817.7c422387-0ubuntu3
 libdrm2 2.4.12+git20090801.45078630-0ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.8.1-1ubuntu1
 xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.12.99+git20090629.f39cafc5-0ubuntu6
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-8-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare
XorgConf: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/etc/X11/xorg.conf'
XorgLogOld: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/Xorg.0.log.old'
Xrandr: Error: command ['xrandr', '--verbose'] failed with exit code 1: Can't open display
dmi.bios.date: 02/17/09
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MB52.88Z.0088.B02.0902171256
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-F22788AA
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: Asset Tag#
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-F22788AA
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMB52.88Z.0088.B02.0902171256:bd02/17/09:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBook5,2:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-F22788AA:rvr:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-F22788AA:
dmi.product.name: MacBook5,2
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
fglrx: Not loaded
glxinfo: Error: command ['glxinfo'] failed with exit code 255: Error: unable to open display
setxkbmap: Error: command ['setxkbmap', '-print'] failed with exit code 255: Cannot open display "default display"
system:
 distro: Ubuntu
 architecture: x86_64kernel: 2.6.31-8-generic
xdpyinfo: Error: command ['xdpyinfo'] failed with exit code 1: xdpyinfo: unable to open display "".
xkbcomp:
 Error: command ['xkbcomp', ':0', '-w0', '-'] failed with exit code 1: Error: Cannot open display ":0"
                   Exiting

Just FYI,
it works fine on an MBP5,1.

Regards, Nikos

Is that using karmic or jaunty, cause it works fine for me on jaunty.

Karmic Alpha 4 (downloaded yesterday).

If it means anything, this is the info I can get from OSX on my graphics card:

  Device ID: 0x0866
  Revision ID: 0x00b1
  ROM Revision: 3384

I was just wondering if yours was the same Νίκος?

David,

I think that probably it was a mistake to report here the successful karmic-boot and load of X under the MacBook Pro 5,1 which "by default" uses the 9600 Nvidia card and _not_ the integrated 9400 chip.

Apologies, Nikos

Same thing here using 09/09/09 liveCD or alpha5 with a nvidia 9400M in a dell studio 14z.

X fails to start as the video card is not recognized and I end up on a tty login prompt.
My Xorg log looks just the same as David's:
   [...]
   II) NV: driver for NVIDIA chipsets: RIVA 128, RIVA TNT, RIVA TNT2,
   [....]
   (WW) NV: Ignoring unsupported device 0x10de0866 (C79 [GeForce 9400M G]) at 02@00:00:0

Note: Workaround using alternate CD to perform install then install nvidia-glx-185 drivers, ubuntu boots just fine.

Yep, using the alternate install of karmic worked fine for me. I just installed as normal and booted successfully into the GUI first time.

The fix for bug 385658 redoes how card detection works with -nv and may solve this bug. Please test Karmic-beta or newer and verify if it does.

I've just checked the karmic liveCD at it works fine

Actually, it isn't fine. It's booted fine, but the installer is full screen without a window border or anything (I've just tried install ubuntu and not try ubuntu) Is this normal, and if not should I report a new bug?