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Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@×××××××××××××××.no> writes: |
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> I have an old but good graphics card, "NVIDIA Corporation GT200GL |
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> [Quadro FX 3800]". The proprietary driver is EOL, not supported after |
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> kernel 3.14.*, so I'd like to switch to nouveau. I'm having trouble |
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> getting nouveau to work at all, it is giving me a blank screen and |
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> apparently not grabbing my keyboard (ctrl:swapcaps has no effect). |
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> Nothing stands out as errors in Xorg.0.log, same errors are both under |
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> nvidia and nouveau, but nvidia gives me a useable desktop. Both seem |
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> to detect my monitor (benq) correctly. |
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> $ grep '(EE)' Xorg.0.log.nvidia Xorg.0.log.nouveau | grep -v '(WW)' |
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> Xorg.0.log.nvidia:[ 39.193] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get |
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> session: PID 2112 does not belong to any known session |
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> Xorg.0.log.nouveau:[ 35.428] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get |
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> session: PID 2167 does not belong to any known session |
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> Xorg.0.log.nouveau:[ 37.322] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [COPY] failed to |
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> allocate class. |
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> The PID belongs to /usr/bin/X, see below. |
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> I'm running gentoo-sources-4.3.3 kernel with experimental feature to |
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> select Haswell architecture. The host is a virtual machine running |
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> under app-emulation/xen-4.6.0-r6. Driver is |
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> x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.11, use-flag glamor enabled. |
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Have you passed the graphics card through to the VM? |
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Is the user trying to run the X server in the video group? |
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Systemd appears to complicate things greatly. Have you tried to use |
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startx? |
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Can you attach x11vnc to the session (assuming that one does exist) to |
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see what would be on the screen from a remote machine? |
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