Bug#641195: nvidia-kernel-dkms: the screen is sometimes turned off when opening libreoffice

[John Feuerstein]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:37:29 +0200, Anders Lagerås wrote:
> <<<<<<<<<< /etc/X11/xorg.conf >>>>>>>>>>
> ...
> #	Option		"IgnoreABI" "1"
> ...

So this is commented out, did you pass -ignoreABI on the command line?

> [   205.259] (II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
> [   205.259] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.so
> [   205.327] (II) Module nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
> [   205.329] 	compiled for 4.0.2, module version = 1.0.0
> [   205.329] 	Module class: X.Org Video Driver
> [   205.329] ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================
> [   205.329] This server has a video driver ABI version of 11.0 that this
> driver does not officially support.  Please check
> http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X
> server with a supported driver ABI.
> [   205.330] =================================================================
> [   205.330] (WW) NVIDIA: The driver will continue to load, but may behave strangely.
> [   205.330] (WW) NVIDIA: This driver was compiled against the X.Org server SDK from git commit b6c7b9b2f39e970cedb6bc1e073f901e28cb0fa3 and may not be compatible with the final version of this SDK.
> [   205.330] (WW) NVIDIA: This server has an unsupported input driver ABI version (have 13.0, need < 13.0).  The driver will continue to load, but may behave strangely.

This would be fatal if ignoreABI was unset.

> ii  xserver-xorg-core [xorg-video-abi-11]  2:1.11.0-1

Try downgrading this for now:

$ apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=2:1.10.4-1

See http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=165665

Hope that helps,
John