8600 GTS and 4GB of RAM (blank screen)

[LucidTaZ]

Hi,

First of all, here are my specs:
CPU: AMD64 X2 5600+
Memory: 4x 1GB Kingston
Graphics Card: nVidia GeForce 8600 GTS with 256MB memory.
OS: Ubuntu Linux 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)

Okay, this computer is brand new, and everything works perfectly in Windows, so I don't think it's a hardware problem. I installed the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-169.12 driver a few weeks ago when I still had 2GB of RAM. Everything worked back then. But when I installed 2GB RAM extra, my screen went blank right before the graphical login screen would appear. I also don't hear any sounds that I usually hear when the login screen appears. It still works in Windows.

So I thought maybe it's a bug in the driver. Can anyone help me please?

[mlauss]

according to the log you're using the "vesa" driver!
As root, open the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf in an editor, look for the line

Driver "vesa"

and replace "vesa" with "nvidia", then log off and on again.

[pe1chl]

There are known problems with using (nearly) 4GB of memory, try to use the search function.

[zander]

Just to clarify, however: there are no known NVIDIA Linux graphics driver bugs with large memory configurations.

[tec-buck]

If you struggle with vi, as I do, you could add "linux 3" as an argument to the boot loader. This makes the system bootup to init 3. After that I would run the nvidia-xconfig command and let let it configure your xorg file. Reboot or run startx.

[LucidTaZ]

Originally Posted by mlauss

according to the log you're using the "vesa" driver!
As root, open the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf in an editor, look for the line

Driver "vesa"

and replace "vesa" with "nvidia", then log off and on again.

I could not log on when using the nvidia driver. The screen would be black and I couldn't access the other terminals.

This log file was made with recovery mode bootup.

As for the other replies: thanks, I will look into it later when I have more time.

[LucidTaZ]

Updating my motherboard BIOS solved this problem.