[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 969121] Re: Cannot boot Live CD with Nvidia GTX 550Ti

[Ilja Sekler]

This is a kernel bug 
which says that all 3.2 and 3.3 kernels will crash as soon as the
nouveau kernel module is loaded. I don't know if other NVIDIA cards of
the NVC0 generation are affected as well.

The good news, not noted in the upstream bug: the issue is resolved in
3.4rc2 at the latest. Verified on Fedora 16.

Ubuntu 12.04 is already in the kernel freeze phase prior to the release,
so the OOTB experience will likely remain broken for all users with a
GTX 550 Ti. The workaround is to prevent nouveau from loading and to use
vesa instead.

** Bug watch added: Linux Kernel Bug Tracker #42876
   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42876

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[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 969121] Re: Cannot boot Live CD with Nvidia GTX 550Ti

[Ilja Sekler]

> similar issue but generally can reach the desktop using nomodeset and install 
> and reboot using nomodeset to desktop but once the nvidia proprietery driver 
> is installed I am then unable to boot to login screen even adding nomodeset

This is completely unrelated to this bug. 'nomodeset' effectively
prevents nouveau from loading, hiding the issue. This bug is about
nouveau in Precise kernel (well, for other reasons in Oneiric too), not
about the Nvidia blob. 'nomodeset' has no effect on the Nvidia
proprietary driver, because it doesn't support kernel based mode setting
anyway.

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