Hm. So, what appears to be happening here - from your picture - is that nouveau doesn't know how to drive your laptop display. I presume the binary nvidia driver works in this case?
If the binary nvidia driver works, it's likely that an mmio-trace of it correctly initialising the display will be useful for fixing this. You can check out the howto here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/MMIOTracing -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/564572 Title: no image when booting with GeForce 8400M -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs