Comment 14 for bug 146706
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| Andy Stanford-Clark (andysc) wrote Re: [Gutsy Beta] Live cd graphics fail with nvidia geforce4 440 go | #14 |
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Am getting the same thing with Lenovo T61 ThinkPad which has nVidia Quadro NVS 140M inside.
There's nothing on the screen, though - once it kicks up into graphics mode, the screen is just black.
Would be good if there was some kind of fallback position, as those of use taking the first faltering steps with Linux are very likely to be put off by a black screen and no response at all, such a short distance into the Ubuntu experience. I know I can cold start the machine and select "safe graphics mode", but it's a bad first impression!
A colleague with a slightly later release of same machine has no problem booting liveCD, and the open source nVidia drivers are working just fine for him now he's all installed.
The only way to get anything better than 800x600 on mine is to use the envy-installed nVidia drivers (not that this is a big problem, but it means I have to use their config tool for multiple screens, rather than what's built into Ubuntu).