On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Håkon Alstadheim <ha...@alstadheim.priv.no> wrote:
> I have an old but good graphics card, "NVIDIA Corporation GT200GL [Quadro > FX 3800]". The proprietary driver is EOL, not supported after kernel > 3.14.*, so I'd like to switch to nouveau. I'm having trouble getting > nouveau to work at all, it is giving me a blank screen and apparently not > grabbing my keyboard (ctrl:swapcaps has no effect). > > Nothing stands out as errors in Xorg.0.log, same errors are both under > nvidia and nouveau, but nvidia gives me a useable desktop. Both seem to > detect my monitor (benq) correctly. > > --- > $ grep '(EE)' Xorg.0.log.nvidia Xorg.0.log.nouveau | grep -v '(WW)' > Xorg.0.log.nvidia:[ 39.193] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get session: > PID 2112 does not belong to any known session > Xorg.0.log.nouveau:[ 35.428] (EE) systemd-logind: failed to get > session: PID 2167 does not belong to any known session > Xorg.0.log.nouveau:[ 37.322] (EE) NOUVEAU(0): [COPY] failed to allocate > class. > --- > The PID belongs to /usr/bin/X, see below. > --- > I'm running gentoo-sources-4.3.3 kernel with experimental feature to > select Haswell architecture. The host is a virtual machine running under > app-emulation/xen-4.6.0-r6. Driver is > x11-drivers/xf86-video-nouveau-1.0.11, use-flag glamor enabled. > > I've run emerge -e @world after installing the kernel, just in case some > part of the system was incompatible with the kernel. Specifically pam has > been recompiled several times. I have jiggled countless other knobs, to no > effect. > > -- systemctl log for kdm (disabled means it is loaded manually, autologin > into fluxbox works) : --- > # systemctl status -l kdm > ● kdm.service - KDM Display Manager > Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/kdm.service; disabled; vendor > preset: enabled) > Active: active (running) since ma. 2016-01-11 16:56:11 CET; 28min ago > Main PID: 2157 (kdm) > CGroup: /system.slice/kdm.service > ├─2157 /usr/bin/kdm -debug 0x108 -nodaemon > └─2167 /usr/bin/X -br -novtswitch -quiet :0 vt7 -nolisten tcp > -auth /var/run/xauth/A:0-y7Kmbb > > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: receiving command from sub-daemon for > display :0 ... > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: -> 1 > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: receiving int from sub-daemon for display > :0 ... > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: -> 1001 (0x3e9) > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: receiving string from sub-daemon for > display :0 ... > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: -> 6 bytes > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: -> "hakon" > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: receiving string from sub-daemon for > display :0 ... > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: -> 8 bytes > jan. 11 16:56:18 gt kdm[2157]: -> "fluxbox" > ------ > -- > The [COPY] message is supposed to be harmless according to a discussion > with the developers I found on some website, since my card does not support > that feature. > > I'm using this script to switch graphics-driver, before rebooting and > launching kdm with autologin: > ---- > cat `which graphics-nvidia ` > #!/bin/bash > NEW=`basename $0` > case $NEW in > graphics-nouveau) > eselect opengl set xorg-x11 > eselect opencl set mesa > rm -f /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.gml > mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.gml > perl -pe 's(^ *blacklist nouveau)(#$&);s(^ *# *blacklist > nvidia$)(blacklist nvidia)' /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.gml > > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf > # dummy empty nvidia.rules > touch /etc/udev/rules.d/99-nvidia.rules > cat <<XORGX11 > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10device.conf > Section "Device" > Identifier "noveau device" > Typo here. This should read 'nouveau'. What is the output of 'grep NOUVEAU /path/to/your/kernel/sources/.config'? > Driver "nouveau" > EndSection > XORGX11 > ;; > graphics-nvidia) > rm -f /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.gml > mv /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.gml > perl -pe 's(^ *blacklist nvidia$)(#$&);s(^ *# *blacklist > nouveau)(blacklist nouveau)' /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf.gml > > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf > eselect opengl set nvidia > eselect opencl set nvidia > # remove dummy empty nvidia.rules > rm /etc/udev/rules.d/99-nvidia.rules > cat <<XORGNV > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10device.conf > Section "Device" > Identifier "nvidia device" > Driver "nvidia" > EndSection > XORGNV > > ;; > esac > --- > > The script is not pretty, I know :-/ > > So, it seems everything is working with nouveau, except there is no > picture and no keyboard. > >
