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On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:43:59PM -0400, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote |
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> I have two systems with nvidia cards. Let call them OK and NG. |
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> OK is a laptop and NG is a desktop, but I think that is irrelevant. |
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> For both I am using the nouveau driver and kernel 3.12.13. |
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> My only monitor is a 2560x1600 dell 30" (model 3011). |
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> When I hook OK up to the display (via a port replicator) all is well. |
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> With NG I get a screen of grey bars (I can switch to consoles and |
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> everything seems fine there). |
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> For both systems I have no /etc/X11/xorg.conf. |
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> Here are the two /var/log/Xorg.0.log files. I don't see what the error is. |
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> Any help is appreciated, |
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> allan |
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I copied the two messages, and compared them side-by-each in xterms. |
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When X realizes that you have an Nvidia card, and no xorg.conf, it sets |
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up a list of all drivers that could possibly work with your card, and |
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goes around probing, trying to find them... |
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[ 20.299] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0 |
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[ 20.299] (==) Matched nv as autoconfigured driver 1 |
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[ 20.299] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 2 |
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[ 20.299] (==) Matched nv as autoconfigured driver 3 |
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[ 20.299] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 4 |
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[ 20.299] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 5 |
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[ 20.299] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 6 |
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[ 20.299] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout |
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The OK version reports as follows... |
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[ 32.691] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" |
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[ 32.691] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so |
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...followed by failure messages as it attempts to load "nv" (Nvidia |
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binary blob), modesetting, fbdev, and vesa. It only finds nouveau, and |
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works with it. |
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The NG version reports... |
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[ 20.299] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau" |
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[ 20.314] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so |
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[ 20.523] (II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation" |
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[ 20.523] compiled for 1.15.0, module version = 1.0.10 |
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[ 20.523] Module class: X.Org Video Driver |
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[ 20.523] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 15.0 |
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[ 20.537] (II) LoadModule: "nv" |
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[ 20.537] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so |
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[ 20.607] (II) Module nv: vendor="X.Org Foundation" |
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***IT'S LOADING BOTH NOUVEAU AND NV (NVIDIA BINARY BLOB) DRIVERS***. As |
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you've noticed, that doesn't work very well. You need to get rid of the |
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Nvidia binary blob drivers. The options are... |
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Plan A) unmerge the Nvidia binary drivers |
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Plan B) if Plan A fails, manually remove /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nv_drv.so |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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