Hallo, * Andreas Beckmann [Fri, May 01 2020, 12:49:11AM]: > On 30/04/2020 22.18, Eduard Bloch wrote: > > I don't know what the problem is. Looking at Xorg log, it seems that it > > The problem happens earlier, before xorg gets started: > The nvidia module does not get loaded at boot. > > > still insist on loading NOUVEAU. So I think something is broken in your > > package, the bit which was supposed to turn nouveau off. > > I think something is "special" in your long grown system, some local > tweak long forgotten that now gets in the way of nvidia ... > > /etc/modules-load.d/nvidia.conf should be responsible for loading the > nvidia-drm kernel module, while > /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf prevents nouveau from > being loaded automatically. > Does manual 'modprobe -v nvidia-drm' work? If not, dmesg may contain > interesting error messages.
$ cat /etc/modules-load.d/nvidia.conf nvidia-drm $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf # You need to run "update-initramfs -u" after editing this file. # see #580894 blacklist nouveau $ modprobe -v nvidia-drm $ modinfo nvidia-drm modinfo: ERROR: Module nvidia-drm not found. Now what? $ grep nvidia-kernel /var/log/dpkg.log 2020-04-30 21:51:28 install nvidia-kernel-common:amd64 20151021+4 20151021+11 2020-04-30 21:51:28 status half-installed nvidia-kernel-common:amd64 20151021+4 2020-04-30 21:51:28 status unpacked nvidia-kernel-common:amd64 20151021+11 2020-04-30 21:51:28 install nvidia-kernel-source:amd64 <keine> 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:28 status half-installed nvidia-kernel-source:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:29 status unpacked nvidia-kernel-source:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:29 install nvidia-kernel-support:amd64 375.82-1 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:29 status half-installed nvidia-kernel-support:amd64 375.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:29 status unpacked nvidia-kernel-support:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:29 configure nvidia-kernel-common:amd64 20151021+11 <keine> 2020-04-30 21:51:29 status unpacked nvidia-kernel-common:amd64 20151021+11 2020-04-30 21:51:29 status half-configured nvidia-kernel-common:amd64 20151021+11 2020-04-30 21:51:30 status installed nvidia-kernel-common:amd64 20151021+11 2020-04-30 21:51:30 configure nvidia-kernel-source:amd64 440.82-1 <keine> 2020-04-30 21:51:30 status unpacked nvidia-kernel-source:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:30 status half-configured nvidia-kernel-source:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:30 status installed nvidia-kernel-source:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:43 configure nvidia-kernel-support:amd64 440.82-1 <keine> 2020-04-30 21:51:43 status unpacked nvidia-kernel-support:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:43 status half-configured nvidia-kernel-support:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:43 status triggers-awaited nvidia-kernel-support:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 21:51:52 status installed nvidia-kernel-support:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 22:11:07 install nvidia-kernel-dkms:amd64 <keine> 440.82-1 2020-04-30 22:11:07 status half-installed nvidia-kernel-dkms:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 22:11:08 status unpacked nvidia-kernel-dkms:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 22:11:19 configure nvidia-kernel-dkms:amd64 440.82-1 <keine> 2020-04-30 22:11:19 status unpacked nvidia-kernel-dkms:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 22:11:19 status half-configured nvidia-kernel-dkms:amd64 440.82-1 2020-04-30 22:11:58 status installed nvidia-kernel-dkms:amd64 440.82-1 Now that confuses me. I have run "m-a a-i nvidia -vt" yesterday and as far as I remember, it has finished successfully, it has installed a few packages. But I don't see a log in /var/cache/modass/ , only nvidia-kernel-source.cur_version and nvidia-kernel-source.avail_version files. That's totally confusing. Why was the package Ok, so what I did not? Run "m-a a-i nvidia -vt" again. OTOH I don't know. The driver worked yesterday after chaning xorg.conf so it should be there, and I cannot check afterwards what happened. I rerun m-a again, and it did build and install nvidia-kernel-5.6.0-trunk-amd64 this time. But the module it contains is called nvidia-current-drm, not nvidia-drm. EDIT: continuing to write this a after a couple of reboots. I tried to recreate the situation from yesterday. I see that installing the m-a packages was not needed, the module was already built and injected by dkms and yes, it was loadable. But it was not loaded yesterday, according to the log it was only loaded after I edited xorg.conf (so it was triggerd forcibly by the driver). Also, this looks confusing if you don't know what to look for: # modprobe -v nvidia-drm # modprobe -v nvidia-current-drm insmod /lib/modules/5.6.0-trunk-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko insmod /lib/modules/5.6.0-trunk-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-modeset.ko insmod /lib/modules/5.6.0-trunk-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-drm.ko So, your hint from above was only partly helpful. Maybe this should be brought to modutils maintainers, this difference should not exist. Anyway, "modinfo nvidia-current-drm" confirms that its available: filename: /lib/modules/5.6.0-trunk-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-drm.ko version: 440.82 supported: external license: MIT srcversion: D65980CAE08DFB7B82FE1D1 alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc02i00* alias: pci:v000010DEd*sv*sd*bc03sc00i00* depends: drm,drm_kms_helper,nvidia-modeset retpoline: Y name: nvidia_drm vermagic: 5.6.0-trunk-amd64 SMP mod_unload modversions parm: modeset:Enable atomic kernel modesetting (1 = enable, 0 = disable (default)) (bool) > I saw this in your report that makes me suspicious: why is the radeon > module loaded? It's a fixed entry in /etc/modules , it was added a couple of years ago to overrule amdgpu driver because I had a RX560D which was supported by both drivers. > PS: if nvidia-drm.ko is loaded, xorg should use nvidia automatically I am trying to recollect what happened yesterday since I cannot fully explain and cannot proove much through the logs. The only plausible explanation is that I mixed it up. Upon the first reboot, the module was not loaded nor was nouveau blacklisted (see Bug#959208 for the reason). Maybe that was the moment where nvidia loading did not work. Either that or there was some subtle issue which is no longer reproducible. Either way, that kinda feels like 1999. Best regards, Eduard.
