Roger Price composed on 2016-09-23 22:06 (UTC+0200):
Hi, The box is a Dell Precision T7500 with an nVidia Quadro 4000 card and
I wonder if that 4000 is new enough to be supported by the generic driver built into the server since 1.17.0 (OS 42.1 has 1.17.2)? Easiest way to find out that I know: uninstall all traces of the proprietary driver if there are any, and uninstall xf86-video-nouveau. If supported, Xorg.0.log should report MODESET(0) instead of NOUVEAU(0), and with any luck, 5120x1440 will return without fuss.
two displayport 1.2 connected iiyama B2783QSU 2560x1440 monitors. With Beta 1, the nouveau driver detected the card and the monitors correctly and set them up as a single 5120x1440 display. Very nice :-)
After the upgrade, Beta 2 breaks this and gives me a default FrameBuffer at 1024x768. :-(
A Beta 1 log is available at http://rogerprice.org/Xorg.1.log.Beta1 The Beta 2 log is at http://rogerprice.org./Xorg.0.log.Beta2
"Error 404 Vhost unknown" (extra ".").
I notice in the Beta 1 log
[ 1906.952] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa [ 1907.283] (II) [drm] nouveau interface version: 1.3.1 [ 1907.283] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting [ 1907.284] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev [ 1907.284] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
but in the Beta 2 log
[ 51.958] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa [ 52.195] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:03:00.0: -19 [ 52.320] (EE) [drm] Failed to open DRM device for pci:0000:03:00.0: -19 [ 52.320] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory [ 52.320] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting [ 52.320] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory [ 52.320] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
Please can we have the old nouveau again? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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