[olug] Fedora 17, XFCE fails to start Xorg

Fri Jun 1 12:23:53 UTC 2012

I've had similar issues with older NVidia cards and more recent Ubuntu
distros.  I think my only recourse was to go back to an older distro
and hope that they'd have it fixed in the future.  Either that or you
can experiment with getting the proprietary NVidia drivers to work.

Ben

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Jon Larsen <jon at jonlarsen.us> wrote:
> I remember reading somewhere that there is a bug in Nouveau for older nvidia
> cards.  I'm trying to find the reference, but I cannot find it. I believe it
> was on planet.fedoraproject.org.  Maybe it was fedoraforum.org.
>
> You may need to wait for a nouveau/kernel update.
>
>
>
>
> On 05/31/2012 02:24 PM, Kevin D. Snodgrass wrote:
>>
>> Just installed Fedora 17, XFCE spin, all went well.  On reboot though, it
>> failed to start Xorg.  Tried rebooting, same prob.
>>
>> All my systems are old, this one has an NVidia GeForce MX 440, i.e. NV18
>> chipset.  The nouveau kernel module gets loaded during boot.  But Xorg can't
>> find it or something.  From /var/log/Xorg.0.log:
>>
>> ============================================
>>
>> [    21.022] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
>> [    21.022] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
>> [    21.022] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>> [    21.022]    compiled for 1.11.99.901, module version = 2.3.0
>> [    21.022]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>> [    21.022]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 12.0
>> [    21.022] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
>> [    21.022] (--) using VT number 2
>>
>> [    21.025] vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver
>> [    21.025] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
>> [    21.025] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
>> [    21.025] (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration.
>> [    21.025]
>> Fatal server error:
>> [    21.025] no screens found
>> [    21.025]
>>
>> ============================================
>>
>>  From /var/log/messages, starting with first instance of "nouveau":
>> ============================================
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.306018] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Detected an NV10 generation card
>> (0x01f000a5)
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.311161] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Attempting to load BIOS image fro
>> m PRAMIN
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.354808] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> ... BIOS checksum invalid
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.354888] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Attempting to load BIOS image fro
>> m PROM
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.355019] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> ... BIOS signature not found
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.355099] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Attempting to load BIOS image fro
>> m PCIROM
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.355598] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> ... appears to be valid
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.355876] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> BMP BIOS found
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.355954] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> BMP version 5.21
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.356045] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Bios version 04.1f.00.08
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.371486] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> I2C0: type 3 index 0/0 unknown
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.371578] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> I2C1: type 3 index 0/0 unknown
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.371882] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> MXM: no VBIOS data, nothing to do
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.371966] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> DCB version 2.0
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.372076] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> DCB outp 00: 01000100 000088b8
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.372159] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> DCB outp 01: 02010210 000088b8
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.372440] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Parsing VBIOS init table 0 at offset 0x9E1E
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.372583] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Parsing VBIOS init table 1 at offset 0xA040
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.372707] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Parsing VBIOS init table 2 at offset 0x9E85
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.387865] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Parsing VBIOS init table 3 at offset 0xA192
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.387988] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Parsing VBIOS init table 4 at offset 0x9FDB
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.388122] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Unknown memclock table version 0.
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.401226] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> 0 available performance level(s)
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.401334] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> c: core 200MHz memory 167045M
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.401660] [TTM] Zone  kernel:
>> Available graphics memory: 442688 kiB.
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.401742] [TTM] Zone highmem:
>> Available graphics memory: 481572 kiB.
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.401822] [TTM] Initializing pool
>> allocator.
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.401916] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Detected 64MiB VRAM
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.402242] agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0:
>> AGP 2.0 bridge
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.402348] agpgart-nvidia 0000:00:00.0:
>> putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.402501] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> putting AGP V2 device into 4x mode
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.402577] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> 64 MiB GART (aperture)
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.402753] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Saving VGA fonts
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.447811] [drm] Supports vblank
>> timestamp caching Rev 1 (10.10.2010).
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.447891] [drm] No driver support for
>> vblank timestamp query.
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.476236] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 0)
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.476354] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Setting dpms mode 3 on vga encoder (output 1)
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.509023] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Load detected on output A
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.522278] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> allocated 1024x768 fb: 0x49000, bo f4989800
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    1.522644] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is
>> primary device
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    2.234539] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Setting dpms mode 0 on vga encoder (output 0)
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    2.234545] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0:
>> Output VGA-1 is running on CRTC 0 using output A
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    2.235387] Console: switching to colour
>> frame buffer device 128x48
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    2.236209] fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer
>> device
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    2.236211] drm: registered panic
>> notifier
>> May 31 13:49:29 mythtv kernel: [    2.236237] [drm] Initialized nouveau
>> 0.0.16 20090420 for 0000:02:00.0 on minor 0
>> ============================================
>>
>>
>> And later, Fedora/Red Hat's firstboot tries to start Xorg:
>>
>>
>> ============================================
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv firstboot[669]: INFO:firstboot.frontend:setting
>> LANG to en_US.UTF-8
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv firstboot[669]: INFO:firstboot.frontend:starting
>> the Xorg server
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv kernel: [   20.783708] vgaarb: this pci device is
>> not a vga device
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv systemd[1]: firstboot-graphical.service: main
>> process exited, code=exited, status=1
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv systemd[1]: Unit firstboot-graphical.service
>> entered failed state.
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv kernel: [   21.026822] vgaarb: this pci device is
>> not a vga device
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv gdm-binary[734]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display
>> lasted 0.072255 seconds
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv kernel: [   21.073399] vgaarb: this pci device is
>> not a vga device
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv gdm-binary[734]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display
>> lasted 0.042706 seconds
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv kernel: [   21.115739] vgaarb: this pci device is
>> not a vga device
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv gdm-binary[734]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display
>> lasted 0.040468 seconds
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv kernel: [   21.158036] vgaarb: this pci device is
>> not a vga device
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv gdm-binary[734]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display
>> lasted 0.040516 seconds
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv kernel: [   21.200199] vgaarb: this pci device is
>> not a vga device
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv gdm-binary[734]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display
>> lasted 0.040299 seconds
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv kernel: [   21.242439] vgaarb: this pci device is
>> not a vga device
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv gdm-binary[734]: WARNING: GdmDisplay: display
>> lasted 0.040367 seconds
>> May 31 13:49:31 mythtv gdm-binary[734]: WARNING: GdmLocalDisplayFactory:
>> maximum number of X display failur
>> es reached: check X server log for errors
>> ============================================
>>
>>
>> Any ideas anyone?
>>
>> The 1 line from /var/log/messages:Unknown memclock table version 0.
>> has me somewhat worried...
>>
>>
>> What is weird is the LiveCD boots fine and Xorg loads and looks better
>> than ever.  There are obvious improvements from previous versions...
>>
>>
>> Kevin D. Snodgrass
>>
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