There seem to be two or three bugs here - one is that the nouveau kernel
module is trying to initialise your hardware, and fails. In a pleasant
change of pace, it fails in such a way that the nouveau X driver doesn't
try to work, so X then tries the other drivers we've listed as possible
drivers for your hardware.
Then, the possible second bug - rather than trying the -nv driver, X
tries the vesa driver.
Then, the the third bug - the vesa driver either doesn't know how to
drive your display or doesn't know how to recover from whatever the
nouveau kernel module has done.
Since you can get to a terminal there are some things that you can try:
1) To see whether it's the fault of the nouveau module corrupting the GPU
state, could you please boot the livecd, adding “nouveau.fakeparam=yes” to the
kernel command line (near the “quiet splash” part is fine). That will cause
the nouveau module to fail to load. If this works, please attach the
/var/log/Xorg.0.log file.
2) Boot up, switch to a terminal, and create the following /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "nvidia"
Driver "nouveau"
EndSection
and then run “sudo service gdm restart” (or “sudo service gdm start” if the
restart doesn't work). That should see if the -nv driver can drive your
hardware successfully.
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lucid beta2: impossible to install on notebook K50IN
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/560122
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