I have the problem that I installed (Ubuntu 12.05) the Nvidia CUDA drivers 285.05.33
and everything worked fine
but after an update of the kernel via the update manager
to
uname -v
**Linux zfmgpu 3.2.0-24-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Tue May 1 16:18:50 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux**
I have the problem that on boot I only see corrupted graphics. I tried to reinstall the driver (which builds the kernel module) which worked but -> I can only boot the new kernel and have lightdm start perfectly by setting "nomodeset" in the GRUB menu. Without this I see corrupted graphics output and it does not start.
What can I do to correct this? I am not a pro! I am a bit lost what I can do
Can somebody explain why I need this "nomodeset" which was previously also not in the grub menu…
The modules which are loaded are:
Module Size Used by
vesafb 13844 1
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 32474 4
ip6table_filter 12815 0
ip6_tables 27864 1 ip6table_filter
iptable_filter 12810 0
ip_tables 27473 1 iptable_filter
x_tables 29846 4 ip6table_filter,ip6_tables,iptable_filter,ip_tables
snd_hda_codec_analog 97987 1
rfcomm 47604 0
bnep 18281 2
nvidia 11936165 40
bluetooth 180104 10 rfcomm,bnep
parport_pc 32866 0
ppdev 17113 0
snd_hda_intel 33773 4
snd_hda_codec 127706 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_rawmidi 30748 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_hwdep 13668 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 97188 3 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
nouveau 774571 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq 61896 2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_timer 29990 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
snd_seq_device 14540 3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
ttm 76949 1 nouveau
snd 78855 18 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_analog,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_rawmidi,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
drm_kms_helper 46978 1 nouveau
drm 242038 3 nouveau,ttm,drm_kms_helper
soundcore 15091 1 snd
i2c_algo_bit 13423 1 nouveau
i7core_edac 28102 0
snd_page_alloc 18529 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
mxm_wmi 12979 1 nouveau
edac_core 53746 1 i7core_edac
video 19596 1 nouveau
asus_atk0110 18078 0
mac_hid 13253 0
wmi 19256 1 mxm_wmi
lp 17799 0
parport 46562 3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
firewire_ohci 41000 0
firewire_core 63558 1 firewire_ohci
usbhid 47199 0
crc_itu_t 12707 1 firewire_core
r8169 62099 0
hid 99559 1 usbhid
Maybe that helps somebody! What is nouveau?
Best Answer
Nouveau is a attempt to replace the NVIDIA obfuscated driver and put it in the kernel. No modeset tells the kernel, not to attempt to set the screenmode. Nouveau would have to do that. However, my experience with an NVIDIA 690 is that nouveau starts to panic at my card and the boot system hangs. A sign to me, that nouveau is still not mature, because the 690 has been around for a while now.
About the driver: nouveau is a kernel component that you can not deactivate through ' additional drivers / restricted drivers' because these drivers are the ones you use for X windows.
what I did, is I added NOMODESET in the list of kernel parameters in grub, permanently. When the system boots the kernel checks this setting and reacts accordingly.
For Ubuntu 12.04 the setting is stored in /etc/default/grub . You add it to the line titled GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. If the line says:
you would change it to:
After adding NOMODESET to this line you should run
sudo update-grubto allow grub2 to see it the next time you boot.