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Featherfoot
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 Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 8:46 pm Post subject: sddm won't start. Console window flickers badly |
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I am having a problem logging into my amd64 system.
The sequence of my problem follows:
1. After being gone for 2 weeks. I logged in and updated my system. There was a message that I needed to add a line to package.keywords so that gentoo-sources-4.17.0 would build. I did that and rebuilt my system, updating nvidia-drivers as usual. I believe it updated to 396.24-r1. Later when I tried to rebuild nvidia-drivers, I thought I saw a message about incompatibility with my nvidia card.
2. When I rebooted, I got dumped into the console prompt, which is flickering so badly that it is extremely difficult to log in.
3. I have experimented with reverting to my previous system, gentoo-sources-4.14.17, and back to nvidia-drivers=390.59. I still have the problem. I have concluded that something else is the problem.
At the moment I am running linux Mint, but can chroot into my unusable gentoo system. |
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steve_v
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:47 am Post subject: |
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The flickering is probably xorg restarting repeatedly. If this is the case, and you run openrc with a display manager, pass 'nox' on the kernel command line to get a usable text console.
Then pull the xorg log file, the answer is almost certainly in there.
When logs are absent, all that remains is speculation. |
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Featherfoot
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Thank you for the insight. I looked at Xorg.0.log.old (Xorg.0.log was empty.)
It shows that the system is trying to load nouveau rather than nvidia.
I checked make.conf. It specifies only nvidia as it always has.
/etc/conf.d/modules specifies nvidia. See below.
Some startup files have clearly changed and I didn't get the memo.ls
From Xorg.0.log.old:
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60.814] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
[ 60.814] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
[ 60.815] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 60.815] compiled for 1.19.5, module version = 1.0.0
[ 60.815] ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 10.0
[ 60.815] (==) Matched nouveau as autoconfigured driver 0
[ 60.815] (==) Matched nv as autoconfigured driver 1
[ 60.815] (==) Matched modesetting as autoconfigured driver 2
[ 60.815] (==) Matched fbdev as autoconfigured driver 3
[ 60.815] (==) Matched vesa as autoconfigured driver 4
[ 60.815] (==) Assigned the driver to the xf86ConfigLayout
[ 60.815] (II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
[ 60.815] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nouveau
[ 60.815] (II) UnloadModule: "nouveau"
[ 60.815] (II) Unloading nouveau
[ 60.815] (EE) Failed to load module "nouveau" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 60.815] (II) LoadModule: "nv"
[ 60.815] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module nv
[ 60.815] (II) UnloadModule: "nv"
[ 60.815] (II) Unloading nv
[ 60.815] (EE) Failed to load module "nv" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 60.815] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
[ 60.815] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
[ 60.815] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 60.815] compiled for 1.19.5, module version = 1.19.5
[ 60.815] Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[ 60.815] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 23.0
[ 60.815] (II) LoadModule: "fbdev"
[ 60.816] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module fbdev
[ 60.816] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[ 60.816] (II) Unloading fbdev
[ 60.816] (EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 60.816] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
[ 60.816] (WW) Warning, couldn't open module vesa
[ 60.816] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
[ 60.816] (II) Unloading vesa
[ 60.816] (EE) Failed to load module "vesa" (module does not exist, 0)
[ 60.816] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers: kms
[ 60.816] (++) using VT number 7
[ 60.821] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 60.821] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
[ 60.821] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
[ 60.821] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 60.821] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[ 60.821] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the config file.
[ 60.821] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 60.821] (EE) no screens found(EE)
[ 60.821] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 60.821] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[ 60.821] (EE)
[ 60.825] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
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Make.conf still has nvidia specified:
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VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
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Here is my /etc/conf.d/modules file:
| Code: | bopper /etc/conf.d # cat modules
# You can define a list modules for a specific kernel version,
# a released kernel version, a main kernel version or just a list.
# The most specific versioned variable will take precedence.
#modules_2_6_23_gentoo_r5="ieee1394 ohci1394"
#modules_2_6_23="tun ieee1394"
#modules_2_6="tun"
#modules_2="ipv6"
#modules="ohci1394"
# You can give modules a different name when they load - the new name
# will also be used to pick arguments below.
#modules="dummy:dummy1"
# Give the modules some arguments if needed, per version if necessary.
# Again, the most specific versioned variable will take precedence.
#module_ieee1394_args="debug"
#module_ieee1394_args_2_6_23_gentoo_r5="debug2"
#module_ieee1394_args_2_6_23="debug3"
#module_ieee1394_args_2_6="debug4"
#module_ieee1394_args_2="debug5"
# You should consult your kernel documentation and configuration
# for a list of modules and their options.
### START: Auto-converted from kernel-2.6
#jc
modules="nvidia snd_hda_intel xc5000"
### END: Auto-converted from kernel-2.6
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Featherfoot
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| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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Once I got X out of the way, I tried to re-emerge nvidia-drivers and noticed what seemed to be an error message at the beginning. It basically informed me that the cujrrent versions of nvidia-drivers I was using were incompatible with my old but expensive graphics card. Once I had the correct version of nvidia running things are better.
KDE isn't running right, but that might be a different problem. |
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Nreal
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| Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2018 5:14 am Post subject: sddm is a bad joke |
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| Its very difficult to understand why kdm was replaced with sddm - a small step backwards - no multiseat until version 1.0 or smthng.. Very bad joke. |
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