X on dell D630 / intel GM965 only shows black screen

karu.pruun karu.pruun at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 07:41:32 PDT 2018


Hello again

To get more background, can you boot to linux and list pci devices
with sth like 'lspci -vv -nn'? Also, do you get one or two drm devices
in linux, ie what do you see with 'ls -l /dev/dri'. Can you get
similar info for OpenBSD that you say works fine?

Cheers

Peeter

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On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 12:44 PM, karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> When xorg starts it first loads the respective drm driver and then
> starts xorg. Doing these steps manually show the sequence fails at
> setting up the drm/i915 driver.
>
> Now when you have two gpus, then the situation may get problematic. If
> there are two different devices, as in intel and nvidia, then one
> problem I've seen is that although the driver attaches correctly, we
> generally do not have the infrastructure to deal with this situation
> 100% correctly. The intel driver is not aware of the other gpu, and it
> will grab the output, leaving the screen frozen because the actual
> output to the screen is rendered from the buffers of the first device,
> the nvidia chip. In my case the solution was to flip a switch (on a
> gmux device) so output comes from the intel device. The nvidia chip
> was left on; it does not matter. From the point of power saving it
> might be better to turn it off though.
>
> However, in your case the system seems to have found two intel
> devices. I'm not sure how the drm/i915 is supposed to handle this.
>
> By way of debugging, if you get to the db> prompt, then give 'call
> dumpsys' and then 'reboot'. The system will save the core dump at next
> boot which you can investigate. Can you do this with the latest
> snapshot (it's stable and you can install with the snapshot .img) to
> be sure the issue is still there? It's possibly still there, but
> better to have the latest snapshot in terms of debugging.
>
> Cheers
>
> Peeter
>
> --
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 11:58 AM, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
> <paaguti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> mileage may vary but I was quite successful shutting off the Nvidia card
>> with my FreeBSD.
>>
>> /PA
>>
>> On 15 March 2018 at 10:44, karu.pruun <karu.pruun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello
>>>
>>> Can you try booting up and then manually loading the i915 driver as
>>> root or with sudo
>>>
>>> % sudo kldload i915
>>>
>>> does this load fine? You should see informational output in
>>> /var/log/messages. What does
>>>
>>> % pciconf -lv
>>>
>>> say about the vga devices, see the blocks starting with 'vga'. For
>>> instance, I have
>>>
>>> ---
>>> vgapci1 at pci0:0:2:0:    class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x00468086
>>> rev=0x18 hdr=0x00
>>>     vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>>>     device     = 'Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller'
>>>     class      = display
>>>     subclass   = VGA
>>> vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0:    class=0x030000 card=0x00c7106b chip=0x0a2910de
>>> rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00
>>>     vendor     = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
>>>     device     = 'GT216M [GeForce GT 330M]'
>>>     class      = display
>>>     subclass   = VGA
>>> ---
>>>
>>> Can you try manually create a simple xorg.conf and set the intel
>>> driver as the only one with the pci address you get from pciconf (eg
>>> PCI:0:2:0)? In my xorg log I'm not seeing any other drivers loaded
>>> except intel and it works fine.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Peeter
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 6:32 PM,  <spuelmaschien at email.de> wrote:
>>> > MoinMoin,
>>> > having problems to get X running on a dell D630 / GM965 graphics laptop.
>>> > It just stays black and it's not killable but by switching it off.
>>> > I've tried intel and vesa drivers by specifying them explicitly
>>> > in /usr/local/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
>>> > Vesa works, but is slooow.
>>> > Intel just hangs with  BusID "PCI:0:2:0" as well as with "PCI:0:2:1".
>>> > In Linux and OpenBSD modesetting drivers just work without any
>>> > modifications to the default xorg configuration.
>>> > Does anybody has a hint what to do ?
>>> >
>>> > Thanks, Tschuess,
>>> >      Sascha
>>> >
>>> > --> Xorg.0.log
>>> > [ 13790.928]
>>> > X.Org X Server 1.18.4
>>> > Release Date: 2016-07-19
>>> > [ 13790.928] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
>>> > [ 13790.928] Build Operating System: DragonFly 5.0-SYNTH x86_64
>>> > [ 13790.928] Current Operating System: DragonFly  5.0-RELEASE DragonFly
>>> > v5.0.2-RELEASE #4: Su x86_64
>>> > [ 13790.931] Build Date: 31 December 2017  01:53:00AM
>>> > [ 13790.931]
>>> > [ 13790.931] Current version of pixman: 0.34.0
>>> > [ 13790.931]    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
>>> >         to make sure that you have the latest version.
>>> > [ 13790.931] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default
>>> > setting,
>>> >         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
>>> >         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
>>> > [ 13790.932] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Mar 13
>>> > 17:42:35 2018
>>> > [ 13790.932] (II) Loader magic: 0x615460
>>> > [ 13790.932] (II) Module ABI versions:
>>> > [ 13790.932]    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
>>> > [ 13790.932]    X.Org Video Driver: 20.0
>>> > [ 13790.932]    X.Org XInput driver : 22.1
>>> > [ 13790.932]    X.Org Server Extension : 9.0
>>> > [ 13790.932] (--) PCI:*(0:0:2:0) 8086:2a02:1028:01f9 rev 12, Mem @
>>> > 0xf6e00000/1048576, 0xe0000000/268435456, I/O @ 0x0000eff0/8, BIOS @
>>> > 0x????????/65536
>>> > [ 13790.932] (--) PCI: (0:0:2:1) 8086:2a03:1028:01f9 rev 12, Mem @
>>> > 0xf6f00000/1048576
>>> > [ 13790.932] (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
>>> > [ 13790.932] (==) --- Start of built-in configuration ---
>>> > [ 13790.932]    Section "Device"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Identifier      "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Driver  "intel"
>>> > [ 13790.932]    EndSection
>>> > [ 13790.932]    Section "Screen"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Identifier      "Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Device  "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]    EndSection
>>> > [ 13790.932]    Section "Device"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Identifier      "Builtin Default modesetting
>>> > Device 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Driver  "modesetting"
>>> > [ 13790.932]    EndSection
>>> > [ 13790.932]    Section "Screen"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Identifier      "Builtin Default modesetting
>>> > Screen 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Device  "Builtin Default modesetting Device 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]    EndSection
>>> > [ 13790.932]    Section "Device"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Identifier      "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Driver  "vesa"
>>> > [ 13790.932]    EndSection
>>> > [ 13790.932]    Section "Screen"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Identifier      "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Device  "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]    EndSection
>>> > [ 13790.932]    Section "ServerLayout"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Identifier      "Builtin Default Layout"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Screen  "Builtin Default intel Screen 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Screen  "Builtin Default modesetting Screen 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]            Screen  "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0"
>>> > [ 13790.932]    EndSection
>>> > [ 13790.932] (==) --- End of built-in configuration ---
>>> > [ 13790.932] (==) ServerLayout "Builtin Default Layout"
>>> > [ 13790.932] (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default intel Screen 0" (0)
>>> > [ 13790.932] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
>>> > [ 13790.933] (**) |   |-->Device "Builtin Default intel Device 0"
>>> > [ 13790.933] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default intel
>>> > Screen 0".
>>> >         Using a default monitor configuration.
>>> > [ 13790.933] (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default modesetting Screen 0" (1)
>>> > [ 13790.933] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
>>> > [ 13790.933] (**) |   |-->Device "Builtin Default modesetting Device 0"
>>> > [ 13790.933] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default
>>> > modesetting Screen 0".
>>> >         Using a default monitor configuration.
>>> > [ 13790.933] (**) |-->Screen "Builtin Default vesa Screen 0" (2)
>>> > [ 13790.933] (**) |   |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
>>> > [ 13790.933] (**) |   |-->Device "Builtin Default vesa Device 0"
>>> > [ 13790.933] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Builtin Default vesa
>>> > Screen 0".
>>> >         Using a default monitor configuration.
>>> > [ 13790.933] (==) Automatically adding devices
>>> > [ 13790.933] (==) Automatically enabling devices
>>> > [ 13790.933] (==) Not automatically adding GPU devices
>>> > [ 13790.933] (==) Max clients allowed: 256, resource mask: 0x1fffff
>>> > [ 13790.933] (==) FontPath set to:
>>> >         /usr/local/share/fonts/misc/,
>>> >         /usr/local/share/fonts/TTF/,
>>> >         /usr/local/share/fonts/OTF/,
>>> >         /usr/local/share/fonts/Type1/,
>>> >         /usr/local/share/fonts/100dpi/,
>>> >         /usr/local/share/fonts/75dpi/
>>> > [ 13790.933] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules"
>>> > [ 13790.933] (II) The server relies on devd to provide the list of input
>>> > devices.
>>> >         If no devices become available, reconfigure devd or disable
>>> > AutoAddDevices.
>>> > [ 13790.933] (II) LoadModule: "glx"
>>> > [ 13790.934] (II) Loading
>>> > /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so
>>> > [ 13790.946] (II) Module glx: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>>> > [ 13790.946]    compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 1.0.0
>>> > [ 13790.946]    ABI class: X.Org Server Extension, version 9.0
>>> > [ 13790.946] (==) AIGLX enabled
>>> > [ 13790.946] (II) LoadModule: "intel"
>>> > [ 13790.946] (II) Loading
>>> > /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
>>> > [ 13790.948] (II) Module intel: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>>> > [ 13790.948]    compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 2.99.917
>>> > [ 13790.948]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>>> > [ 13790.948]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
>>> > [ 13790.948] (II) LoadModule: "modesetting"
>>> > [ 13790.948] (II) Loading
>>> > /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/modesetting_drv.so
>>> > [ 13790.948] (II) Module modesetting: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>>> > [ 13790.948]    compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 1.18.4
>>> > [ 13790.948]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>>> > [ 13790.948]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
>>> > [ 13790.948] (II) LoadModule: "vesa"
>>> > [ 13790.948] (II) Loading
>>> > /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/vesa_drv.so
>>> > [ 13790.949] (II) Module vesa: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>>> > [ 13790.949]    compiled for 1.18.4, module version = 2.3.4
>>> > [ 13790.949]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
>>> > [ 13790.949]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 20.0
>>> > [ 13790.949] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Integrated Graphics
>>> > Chipsets:
>>> >         i810, i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM,
>>> > 865G,
>>> >         915G, E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM,
>>> >         Pineview G, 965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35,
>>> > Q33,
>>> >         GM45, 4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43
>>> > [ 13790.949] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) HD Graphics
>>> > [ 13790.949] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Graphics
>>> > [ 13790.949] (II) intel: Driver for Intel(R) Iris(TM) Pro Graphics
>>> > [ 13790.949] (II) modesetting: Driver for Modesetting Kernel Drivers:
>>> > kms
>>> > [ 13790.949] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
>>> > [ 13790.949] (--) Using syscons driver with X support (version 2.0)
>>> > [ 13790.949] (--) using VT number 9
>>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Fragen sind nicht da um beantwortet zu werden,
>> Fragen sind da um gestellet zu werden
>> Georg Kreisler



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