Centos7 and Nvidia 302 driver black screen
Ron Wheeler
rwheeler at artifact-software.com
Thu Aug 27 10:44:01 PDT 2015
Thanks for taking the time to find the references.
I tried the advice suggested at
http://superuser.com/questions/356124/trouble-with-my-nvidia-geforce-6150-on-debian-wheezy
but it did not change
When starting X11 I see these 2 lines
Loading extension GLX
Loading extension NV-GLX
regardless of the section
#Section "Module"
# Load "glx"
#EndSection
being commented or not commented.
The section
Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection
was already in the xorg.conf file.
It was comforting to see that others are having similar problems.
I might try the nouveau driver again after there are a few more updates
and some indication that it can either support an NVIDIA card or at
least fall back to a generic mode when it finds a card it does not support.
At the moment, I have the server working as I want (Cloudstack
management server) without a graphic console which is the best
configuration for production use.
The graphics UI would have saved me some time in testing the web-based
Cloudstack console on localhost with Firefox.
Thanks
Ron
On 27/08/2015 11:11 AM, walter harms wrote:
> I was curious about the bug and found this solution here:
> Did you see this also ?
> http://superuser.com/questions/356124/trouble-with-my-nvidia-geforce-6150-on-debian-wheezy
>
> In Debian there is abug report related to GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 and nouveau
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2015/05/msg00077.html
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2015/05/msg00088.html (indicated that an other driver works)
>
>
> Sorry that is no solution but maybe they can point in the right direction.
>
>
> re,
> wh
>
> Am 25.08.2015 14:49, schrieb Ron Wheeler:
>> I am a longtime Linux system admin with several servers running Centos 5
>> and 6.
>> I am moving to Centos7 and am not a happy camper for many reasons but it
>> is getting better as the bugs get fixed.
>>
>> One current issue is one of a server that I am upgrading from Centos 6
>> to Centos 7 with a clean install(reformat disk and install from CD,
>> apply updates.
>> I have blacklisted the nouveau driver which does not seem to support
>> NVIDIA GeForce 6150.
>>
>> The NVIDIA driver seems to be the correct one for the hardware
>> NVIDIA GLX Module 304.125 Mon Dec 1 20:22:48 PST 2014
>>
>>
>> [ 3340.557] Build Date: 10 April 2015 11:44:42AM
>> [ 3340.557] Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.15.0-33.el7_1
>> [ 3340.557] Current version of pixman: 0.32.4
>>
>> It seems to be happy with the hardware and detects the monitor OK with
>> the right resolution.
>> [ 3341.127] (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA GPU GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 (C61)
>> at PCI:0:13:0
>> [ 3341.127] (II) NVIDIA(0): (GPU-0)
>> [ 3341.127] (--) NVIDIA(0): Memory: 524288 kBytes
>> [ 3341.127] (--) NVIDIA(0): VideoBIOS: 05.61.32.25.00
>> [ 3341.128] (--) NVIDIA(0): Interlaced video modes are supported on
>> this GPU
>> [ 3341.128] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GeForce 6150SE
>> nForce 430 at PCI:0:13:0
>> [ 3341.128] (--) NVIDIA(0): ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0) (connected)
>> [ 3341.128] (--) NVIDIA(0): ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0): 350.0 MHz
>> maximum pixel clock
>> [ 3341.128] (**) NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the
>> EDID for display
>> [ 3341.128] (**) NVIDIA(0): device ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0) (Using
>> EDID frequencies
>> [ 3341.128] (**) NVIDIA(0): has been enabled on all display devices.)
>> [ 3341.128] (II) NVIDIA(0): Validated MetaModes:
>> [ 3341.128] (II) NVIDIA(0): "CRT-0:nvidia-auto-select"
>> [ 3341.128] (II) NVIDIA(0): Virtual screen size determined to be 1680 x
>> 1050
>>
>>
>> At the end it complains about speakers other front and back devices
>> which is expected since there is nothing attached to any of the audio
>> ports.
>>
>> The GNOME Desktop is installed.
>>
>> When the system boots, the screen flashes in some rectangular blocks
>> and then goes black with a mouse cursor (sometimes)
>> ALT-F2 and CTL-ALT-F1 work but nothing else happens in X11 mode.
>> As a Linux console is still works as normal - can login and do Linux
>> commands.
>>
>> The gdm logs despite their bizarre naming convention (:0.log)? seen to
>> indicate that it did not have any problems although it is hard to know
>> what is normal from the messages output
>>
>> Near the beginning of the log it says
>> (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
>> (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
>> (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
>> (==) ServerLayout "Default Layout"
>> (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
>> (**) | |-->Monitor "Monitor0"
>> (**) | |-->Device "Videocard0"
>> (**) |-->Input Device "Keyboard0"
>> (**) |-->Input Device "Mouse0"
>> (==) Automatically adding devices
>> (==) Automatically enabling devices
>> (==) Automatically adding GPU devices
>> (==) FontPath set to:
>> catalogue:/etc/X11/fontpath.d,
>> built-ins
>> (**) ModulePath set to
>> "/usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/nvidia,/usr/lib64/xo
>> rg/modules"
>> (WW) Hotplugging is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or
>> 'vmmouse' will
>> be disabled.
>> (WW) Disabling Keyboard0
>> (WW) Disabling Mouse0
>> (II) xfree86: Adding drm device (/dev/dri/card0)
>>
>> later it says
>> (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 at
>> PCI:0:1
>> 3:0
>> (--) NVIDIA(0): ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0) (connected)
>> (--) NVIDIA(0): ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0): 350.0 MHz maximum pixel clock
>> (**) NVIDIA(0): Using HorizSync/VertRefresh ranges from the EDID for
>> display
>> (**) NVIDIA(0): device ViewSonic VA2026w (CRT-0) (Using EDID
>> frequencies
>> (**) NVIDIA(0): has been enabled on all display devices.)
>>
>> Which seems to indicate happiness with X11 and the connection to the
>> screen but I would not know what to expect, of course.
>> Later it identifies the mouse correctly and complains that nothing is
>> connected to the audio and other media ports which strikes me as normal.
>>
>> The last thing that it says is
>> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "CRT-0:nvidia-auto-select"
>>
>> Any suggestions about what else to look for?
>>
>> Ron
>>
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