X on dell D630 / intel GM965 only shows black screen

karu.pruun karu.pruun at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 03:44:46 PDT 2018 

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

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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
>> >
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> --
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