On 3/18/19 3:11 PM, Dan Cermak wrote:

Nope, I have blacklisted everything from Nvidia & Nouveau, so only the Intel driver should be running.

Also, I tried the Tumbleweed rescue disk: that one will start booting, but at some point the laptop screen just turns off and that's it.

Can you boot into single user mode (in GRUB edit the kernel line and append " 3" without the quotes  at the end), login, and post your /var/log/Xorg.log.0 ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Hi Larry, thanks for the tip, appending nomodeset did indeed work. Now I have a tty again! X is currently not starting, due to this error: [ 473.385] intel: waited 2020 ms for i915.ko driver to load which I suspect is due to the nomodeset parameter. Is there somewhere an up to date guide for building a custom kernel? I have the linux kernel sources checked out and could try to bisect the issue. Cheers, Dan

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Larry Finger 03/18/19 3:25 PM >>> On 3/18/19 9:11 AM, Dan Cermak wrote: Nope, I have blacklisted everything from Nvidia & Nouveau, so only the Intel driver should be running.

Also, I tried the Tumbleweed rescue disk: that one will start booting, but at some point the laptop screen just turns off and that's it.

If you force the kernel to not load any graphics accelerator, does it boot? When at the GRUB line, select the Advanced option and the 5.0.1 kernel. Then press E to edit the line. Find the line that starts with "linuxefi" or "linux", press the END key to get to the end of the line, and append " nomodeset". Then press the F10 key to boot. Do you get a desktop this way? If so, it will have no acceleration and limited resolution, but we will have isolated the graphics driver as the problem. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

On 3/18/19 9:55 AM, Dan Cermak wrote:

Hi Larry,

thanks for the tip, appending nomodeset did indeed work. Now I have a tty again!

X is currently not starting, due to this error: [ 473.385] intel: waited 2020 ms for i915.ko driver to load

which I suspect is due to the nomodeset parameter.

Is there somewhere an up to date guide for building a custom kernel? I have the linux kernel sources checked out and could try to bisect the issue.

It is quite simple. Run the following steps from your kernel source directory: cp /boot/config-5.0.1-1-default .config make -j9 sudo make modules_install install Then reboot into the new kernel. The latest kernel is now at 5.1-rc1 and there is a possibility that the problem is fixed. In the "make" step, you may need to answer some questions about the configuration. Just use the default option. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

I unfortunately wasn't able to finish the git bisect yesterday, but finished it just now: 7769db5883841b03de544a35a71ff528d4131c17 is the first bad commit Could someone who also got hit by the issue do the following: - checkout the kernel git repository - checkout the above commit - build the kernel as Larry described below - boot it and try out if it breaks - reboot and checkout HEAD~1 - rebuild the kernel, reboot and test whether it works Thanks in advance, Dan

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Larry Finger 03/18/19 4:14 PM >>> On 3/18/19 9:55 AM, Dan Cermak wrote: Hi Larry,

thanks for the tip, appending nomodeset did indeed work. Now I have a tty again!

X is currently not starting, due to this error: [ 473.385] intel: waited 2020 ms for i915.ko driver to load

which I suspect is due to the nomodeset parameter.

Is there somewhere an up to date guide for building a custom kernel? I have the linux kernel sources checked out and could try to bisect the issue.

It is quite simple. Run the following steps from your kernel source directory: cp /boot/config-5.0.1-1-default .config make -j9 sudo make modules_install install Then reboot into the new kernel. The latest kernel is now at 5.1-rc1 and there is a possibility that the problem is fixed. In the "make" step, you may need to answer some questions about the configuration. Just use the default option. Larry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Jiri Slaby writes:

On 19. 03. 19, 11:18, Dan Čermák wrote:

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Jiri Slaby writes:

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On 19. 03. 19, 8:05, Dan Cermak wrote:

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I unfortunately wasn't able to finish the git bisect yesterday, but finished it just now:

7769db5883841b03de544a35a71ff528d4131c17 is the first bad commit

So does it also work when you revert only the commit on the top of 5.0.x? Like: git checkout v5.0.2 git revert 7769db5883841b03de544a35a71ff528d4131c17 make et al

That is unfortunately not possible, that commit was part of a huge number of patches that changed a lot in the i915 subsystem. I tried reverting it on top of v5.0 (there is no v5.0.2 tag upstream), but that failed with the following conflict (which I really don't feel even remotely competent enough to resolve):

OK, that happens.

Then could you create a bug report with your findings at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=DRI&component=DRM/Intel

product=DRI component=DRM/Intel

and paste the URL here?

Here you go: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=110193 Thanks, Dan

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Op 18-03-19 om 15:11 schreef Dan Cermak:

Nope, I have blacklisted everything from Nvidia & Nouveau, so only the Intel driver should be running.

Did you try the intel driver? Modesettings has a bug with a few GPUs of Intel. See: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1129027 Kind regards, Cor -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

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Felix Miata 03/18/19 3:55 PM >>> Dan Cermak composed on 2019-03-18 15:11 (UTC+0100):

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Nope, I have blacklisted everything from Nvidia & Nouveau, so only the Intel driver should be running.

Actually it likely shouldn't. Intel pays its Linux driver writers to put most of their effort into the FOSS modesetting DDX driver. The xf86-video-intel DDX is in maintenance mode, having had no official release since 2015.

Sorry, wrong wording: there are only Intel kernel modules loaded and no Nvidia/Nouveau kernel modules.

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Also, I tried the Tumbleweed rescue disk: that one will start booting, but at some point the laptop screen just turns off and that's it.

Exactly how did you "blacklist" nouveau? Do it wrong, and you might block all DDX drivers.

Like this: $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/99-blacklist-nvidia.conf blacklist nouveau blacklist nvidia blacklist nvidia_drm blacklist nvidia_modeset

Precision 5530 is a model line, not a model. Which do you have? Better yet, what is output from 'inxi -Gxx' (which reports both kernel and DDX drivers, among other useful video info if X is running)? What does cat /proc/cmdline report? Xorg.0.log?

inxi -Gxx reports: Graphics: Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e9b Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GLM [Quadro P1000 Mobile] vendor: Dell driver: N/A bus ID: 01:00.0 chip ID: 10de:1cbb Display: tty server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: N/A tty: 227x82 Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console. Try -G --display /proc/cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.0.2-2.gd1f1d19-default root=/dev/mapper/system-root splash=silent resume=/dev/system/swap quiet mem_sleep_default=deep nomodeset I have added the nomodeset parameter myself as Larry recomended, that gets me to at least to a tty. There is no Xorg.0.log, as I don't automatically start X on boot. However when launching it with nomodeset added, startx fails with not being able to load the i915.ko kernel module. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org

Felix Miata writes:

Dan Cermak composed on 2019-03-18 16:10 (UTC+0100):

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There is no Xorg.0.log, as I don't automatically start X on boot.

I usually don't start X at boot either. All my TW installations with AMD, Intel & NVidia gfx generate /var/log/Xorg.#.log for every X session. Are you a Gnome user? None of mine have Gnome installed, or ever use Wayland.

Not really: I use i3, which I start via ~/.xinitrc as the user that logs in, so the Xorg.log is generated after I logged in via a tty. My problem is though, that the tty simply doesn't show up with the 5.0.x kernel series (the screen stays blank).

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However when launching it with nomodeset added, startx fails with not being able to load the i915.ko kernel module.

nomodeset disables kernel mode setting (KMS). i915.ko depends on KMS enabled. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.

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* H.Merijn Brand [03-18-19 10:11]:

On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:53:55 +0100, "Dan Cermak" wrote:

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Hi list,

yesterday I applied the update to the most recent kernel and unfortunately now my laptop will no longer boot into a graphical session. So if you have a Dell Precision 5530, don't reboot into the 5.0.1 or 5.0.2 kernel. If you did and it runs well, please tell me how you have configured your system, as I currently cannot even get the Tumbleweed rescue disk to boot (exactly the same symptoms: blank screen).

It has nothing to do with the Dell as such, but with the fact that it has an nVidia graphics card. Those problems have been mentioned a few time already on this list.

This is exactly the reason I only choose laptops that do *not* have nVidia graphics hardware. Living on the edge with TumbleWeed and the lagging nVidia support makes the chance on a non-functional laptop too big for my comfort.

is it *usually* simple to boot to an earlier version kernel and nvidia still has the best support for working graphic images. so all depends on one's expectations. I do not buy only nvidia but do buy nvidia for video intensive work. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org