On Saturday 2023-05-13 18:30, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 18:30:44 From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: openSUSE 15.4 boots to a blank screen

On 13.05.2023 08:49, Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users wrote:

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Hello,

I Installed a new video card (same model is running on another computer using openSUSE Leap 15.4 with same proprietary drivers just fine). Since then the computer boots to a blank screen.

What this computer used as video output before you installed this card? Where is video connected? It used a Nvidia Quadro 6000 before, connected to a PCIe x16 gen 2 port. now a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti on the same port.

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Using legacy grub2 to boot (menu displayed fine, first lines of initrd

What is "legacy grub2"?

I meant not the efi version, so classic BIOS / MBR boot.

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are displayed, then screen goes blank). Tried booting using nomodesset, uninstalled plymouth, rebuilt initrd, reinstalled bootloader no changes. I can start the X-Server via SSH, then screens work. I can also switch

I am not sure I understand what "screens work" means. You get output on connected monitor? How exactly are you starting X-Server (full commands)?

I just run "sudo systemctl start display-manager.service" via SSH Then I get output on the monitors (gdm / Xorg) and I can switch to the consoles with ctrl+alt+F1/F2 and so on.

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to other ttys then, showing the console. Probably a serial console would work also. ;-)

video card is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti nvidia drivers (nvidia-video-G06-525.116.04-lp154.8.1.x86_64) load fine, dmesg (last thing I did was start the X server) can be found here: https://www.swabian.net/extern/opensuse/dmesg_blankscreen.txt

Normally kernel is using framebuffer. This shows VGA as console device which implies that your device is not considered framebuffer-capable. Can you show

cat /proc/ioports # cat /proc/ioports 0000-03af : PCI Bus 0000:00 0000-001f : dma1 0020-0021 : pic1 0040-0043 : timer0 0050-0053 : timer1 0060-0060 : keyboard 0064-0064 : keyboard 0070-0077 : rtc0 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00a1 : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 00f0-00f0 : PNP0C04:00 03b0-03df : PCI Bus 0000:80 03b0-03df : PCI Bus 0000:00 03c0-03df : vesafb 03e0-0cf7 : PCI Bus 0000:00 03f8-03ff : serial 0400-0453 : pnp 00:01 0400-0403 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK 0404-0405 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK 0408-040b : ACPI PM_TMR 0420-042f : ACPI GPE0_BLK 0430-0433 : iTCO_wdt.1.auto 0430-0433 : iTCO_wdt 0450-0450 : ACPI PM2_CNT_BLK 0454-0457 : pnp 00:03 0458-047f : pnp 00:01 0460-047f : iTCO_wdt.1.auto 0460-047f : iTCO_wdt 0500-057f : pnp 00:01 0680-069f : pnp 00:01 0800-080f : pnp 00:01 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 0d00-9fff : PCI Bus 0000:00 164e-164f : pnp 00:01 5000-5fff : PCI Bus 0000:07 5000-501f : 0000:07:00.0 6000-6fff : PCI Bus 0000:05 7000-7fff : PCI Bus 0000:03 7000-707f : 0000:03:00.0 8000-8fff : PCI Bus 0000:02 8000-80ff : 0000:02:00.0 9000-901f : 0000:00:1f.3 9000-901f : i801_smbus 9020-903f : 0000:00:1f.2 9020-903f : ahci 9040-905f : 0000:00:19.0 9060-9063 : 0000:00:1f.2 9060-9063 : ahci 9070-9077 : 0000:00:1f.2 9070-9077 : ahci 9080-9083 : 0000:00:1f.2 9080-9083 : ahci 9090-9097 : 0000:00:1f.2 9090-9097 : ahci a000-ffff : PCI Bus 0000:80 ffff-ffff : pnp 00:01 ffff-ffff : pnp 00:01

cat /proc/iomem # cat /proc/iomem 00000000-00000fff : Reserved 00001000-00099bff : System RAM 00099c00-0009ffff : Reserved 00000000-00000000 : PCI Bus 0000:00 000a0000-000dffff : PCI Bus 0000:00 000a0000-000bffff : PCI Bus 0000:80 000c0000-000ce7ff : Video ROM 000ce800-000d53ff : Adapter ROM 000d5800-000d67ff : Adapter ROM 000e0000-000fffff : Reserved 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-279abfff : System RAM 279ac000-299acfff : Reserved 299ad000-2c20afff : System RAM 2c20b000-2c24efff : Reserved 2c24f000-2c567fff : System RAM 2c568000-2c588fff : Reserved 2c589000-2c5a1fff : System RAM 2c5a2000-2c5a4fff : Reserved 2c5a5000-2c5a6fff : System RAM 2c5a7000-2c5b2fff : Reserved 2c5b3000-2c5c1fff : System RAM 2c5c2000-2c5e2fff : Reserved 2c5e3000-2c69dfff : System RAM 2c69e000-2c7e2fff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage 2c7e3000-2c7f6fff : System RAM 2c7f7000-2c7f7fff : ACPI Tables 2c7f8000-2c7f8fff : System RAM 2c7f9000-2c7fafff : ACPI Tables 2c7fb000-2d7fffff : System RAM 2d800000-2fffffff : RAM buffer 30000000-9fffffff : PCI Bus 0000:00 30000000-3fffffff : PCI MMCONFIG 0000 [bus 00-ff] 30000000-3fffffff : Reserved 80000000-91ffffff : PCI Bus 0000:03 80000000-8fffffff : 0000:03:00.0 90000000-91ffffff : 0000:03:00.0 91000000-912fffff : vesafb 92400000-928fffff : PCI Bus 0000:05 9e000000-9f0fffff : PCI Bus 0000:03 9e000000-9effffff : 0000:03:00.0 9e000000-9effffff : nvidia 9f080000-9f083fff : 0000:03:00.1 9f080000-9f083fff : ICH HD audio 9f100000-9f1fffff : PCI Bus 0000:08 9f100000-9f101fff : 0000:08:00.0 9f100000-9f101fff : xhci-hcd 9f200000-9f2fffff : PCI Bus 0000:07 9f200000-9f21ffff : 0000:07:00.0 9f200000-9f21ffff : e1000e 9f220000-9f223fff : 0000:07:00.0 9f220000-9f223fff : e1000e 9f300000-9f3fffff : PCI Bus 0000:05 9f400000-9f4fffff : PCI Bus 0000:02 9f400000-9f43ffff : 0000:02:00.0 9f440000-9f45ffff : 0000:02:00.0 9f460000-9f463fff : 0000:02:00.0 9f460000-9f463fff : megasas: LSI 9f500000-9f51ffff : 0000:00:19.0 9f500000-9f51ffff : e1000e 9f520000-9f523fff : 0000:00:1b.0 9f520000-9f523fff : ICH HD audio 9f525000-9f5250ff : 0000:00:1f.3 9f526000-9f5267ff : 0000:00:1f.2 9f526000-9f5267ff : ahci 9f527000-9f5273ff : 0000:00:1d.0 9f527000-9f5273ff : ehci_hcd 9f528000-9f5283ff : 0000:00:1a.0 9f528000-9f5283ff : ehci_hcd 9f529000-9f529fff : 0000:00:19.0 9f529000-9f529fff : e1000e 9f52c000-9f52c00f : 0000:00:16.0 9f52c000-9f52c00f : mei_me 9f52d000-9f52dfff : 0000:00:05.4 9fffe000-9fffefff : dmar1 a0000000-fbffffff : PCI Bus 0000:80 fbf00000-fbf00fff : 0000:80:05.4 fbffe000-fbffefff : dmar0 fc000000-fcffffff : pnp 00:00 fd000000-fdffffff : pnp 00:00 fe000000-feafffff : pnp 00:00 feb00000-febfffff : pnp 00:00 fec00000-fec003ff : IOAPIC 0 fec3f000-fec3f3ff : IOAPIC 1 fec7f000-fec7f3ff : IOAPIC 2 fed00000-fed003ff : HPET 0 fed00000-fed003ff : PNP0103:00 fed1f410-fed1f414 : iTCO_wdt.1.auto fed1f410-fed1f414 : iTCO_wdt.1.auto iTCO_wdt.1.auto fed20000-fed3ffff : Reserved fed50000-fed8ffff : Reserved fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC ff000000-ffffffff : INT0800:00 ffa00000-ffa3ffff : Reserved 100000000-80cfffffff : System RAM 31c9600000-31ca402187 : Kernel code 31ca600000-31caef9fff : Kernel rodata 31cb000000-31cb35433f : Kernel data 31cba34000-31cbffffff : Kernel bss

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current cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.21-150400.24.63-default root=UUID=406791e3-4103-4da5-8235-aa35ed5be74c nosplash resume=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36c81f660cfd00400232bc7c603abcd39-part4 splash=nosplash debug showopts elevator=cfq mitigations=auto nomodeset

what do I miss? only significant difference to other pc (despite of other hardware (but identical video card)) is, that that one uses efi not legacy boot.

This sounds like something between the system BIOS and NVIDIA BIOS.

maybe, the BIOS/POST Selftest of the system and SAS-RAID Controller show up, grub shows up, first lines of initrd are shown. On the other PC, same OS, kernel cmdline, same video card everything works as espected. thank you

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 8:44 AM Paul Neuwirth <mail@paul-neuwirth.nl> wrote:

On Sunday 2023-05-14 08:56, Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users wrote:

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Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 08:56:34 From: Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> Reply-To: Paul Neuwirth <mail@paul-neuwirth.nl> To: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> Cc: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: openSUSE 15.4 boots to a blank screen

On Saturday 2023-05-13 18:30, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

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Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 18:30:44 From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: openSUSE 15.4 boots to a blank screen

On 13.05.2023 08:49, Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users wrote:

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Hello,

I Installed a new video card (same model is running on another computer using openSUSE Leap 15.4 with same proprietary drivers just fine). Since then the computer boots to a blank screen.

I got my consoles back using vga=792 in the cmdline (which seems to be deprecated).

Can you show dmesg ouptut for comparison?

But displaying anything is extremely slow (being scrolled). How do I get normal console behaviour (just displaying as fast as output is written) back? e.g. showing dmesg takes ages

Again - it is really something between your system BIOS and video card BIOS. Your video card has to emulate legacy VGA and something goes wrong here. Did you try nouveau with its framebuffer driver?

On Saturday 2023-05-13 18:30, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 18:30:44 From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: openSUSE 15.4 boots to a blank screen

On 13.05.2023 08:49, Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users wrote:

...

Hello,

I Installed a new video card (same model is running on another computer using openSUSE Leap 15.4 with same proprietary drivers just fine). Since then the computer boots to a blank screen.

What this computer used as video output before you installed this card? Where is video connected? It used a Nvidia Quadro 6000 before, connected to a PCIe x16 gen 2 port. now a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti on the same port.

...

Using legacy grub2 to boot (menu displayed fine, first lines of initrd

What is "legacy grub2"?

I meant not the efi version, so classic BIOS / MBR boot.

...

are displayed, then screen goes blank). Tried booting using nomodesset, uninstalled plymouth, rebuilt initrd, reinstalled bootloader no changes. I can start the X-Server via SSH, then screens work. I can also switch

I am not sure I understand what "screens work" means. You get output on connected monitor? How exactly are you starting X-Server (full commands)?

I just run "sudo systemctl start display-manager.service" via SSH Then I get output on the monitors (gdm / Xorg) and I can switch to the consoles with ctrl+alt+F1/F2 and so on.

...

to other ttys then, showing the console. Probably a serial console would work also. ;-)

video card is a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti nvidia drivers (nvidia-video-G06-525.116.04-lp154.8.1.x86_64) load fine, dmesg (last thing I did was start the X server) can be found here: https://www.swabian.net/extern/opensuse/dmesg_blankscreen.txt

Normally kernel is using framebuffer. This shows VGA as console device which implies that your device is not considered framebuffer-capable. Can you show

cat /proc/ioports # cat /proc/ioports 0000-03af : PCI Bus 0000:00 0000-001f : dma1 0020-0021 : pic1 0040-0043 : timer0 0050-0053 : timer1 0060-0060 : keyboard 0064-0064 : keyboard 0070-0077 : rtc0 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00a1 : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 00f0-00f0 : PNP0C04:00 03b0-03df : PCI Bus 0000:80 03b0-03df : PCI Bus 0000:00 03c0-03df : vesafb 03e0-0cf7 : PCI Bus 0000:00 03f8-03ff : serial 0400-0453 : pnp 00:01 0400-0403 : ACPI PM1a_EVT_BLK 0404-0405 : ACPI PM1a_CNT_BLK 0408-040b : ACPI PM_TMR 0420-042f : ACPI GPE0_BLK 0430-0433 : iTCO_wdt.1.auto 0430-0433 : iTCO_wdt 0450-0450 : ACPI PM2_CNT_BLK 0454-0457 : pnp 00:03 0458-047f : pnp 00:01 0460-047f : iTCO_wdt.1.auto 0460-047f : iTCO_wdt 0500-057f : pnp 00:01 0680-069f : pnp 00:01 0800-080f : pnp 00:01 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 0d00-9fff : PCI Bus 0000:00 164e-164f : pnp 00:01 5000-5fff : PCI Bus 0000:07 5000-501f : 0000:07:00.0 6000-6fff : PCI Bus 0000:05 7000-7fff : PCI Bus 0000:03 7000-707f : 0000:03:00.0 8000-8fff : PCI Bus 0000:02 8000-80ff : 0000:02:00.0 9000-901f : 0000:00:1f.3 9000-901f : i801_smbus 9020-903f : 0000:00:1f.2 9020-903f : ahci 9040-905f : 0000:00:19.0 9060-9063 : 0000:00:1f.2 9060-9063 : ahci 9070-9077 : 0000:00:1f.2 9070-9077 : ahci 9080-9083 : 0000:00:1f.2 9080-9083 : ahci 9090-9097 : 0000:00:1f.2 9090-9097 : ahci a000-ffff : PCI Bus 0000:80 ffff-ffff : pnp 00:01 ffff-ffff : pnp 00:01

cat /proc/iomem # cat /proc/iomem 00000000-00000fff : Reserved 00001000-00099bff : System RAM 00099c00-0009ffff : Reserved 00000000-00000000 : PCI Bus 0000:00 000a0000-000dffff : PCI Bus 0000:00 000a0000-000bffff : PCI Bus 0000:80 000c0000-000ce7ff : Video ROM 000ce800-000d53ff : Adapter ROM 000d5800-000d67ff : Adapter ROM 000e0000-000fffff : Reserved 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-279abfff : System RAM 279ac000-299acfff : Reserved 299ad000-2c20afff : System RAM 2c20b000-2c24efff : Reserved 2c24f000-2c567fff : System RAM 2c568000-2c588fff : Reserved 2c589000-2c5a1fff : System RAM 2c5a2000-2c5a4fff : Reserved 2c5a5000-2c5a6fff : System RAM 2c5a7000-2c5b2fff : Reserved 2c5b3000-2c5c1fff : System RAM 2c5c2000-2c5e2fff : Reserved 2c5e3000-2c69dfff : System RAM 2c69e000-2c7e2fff : ACPI Non-volatile Storage 2c7e3000-2c7f6fff : System RAM 2c7f7000-2c7f7fff : ACPI Tables 2c7f8000-2c7f8fff : System RAM 2c7f9000-2c7fafff : ACPI Tables 2c7fb000-2d7fffff : System RAM 2d800000-2fffffff : RAM buffer 30000000-9fffffff : PCI Bus 0000:00 30000000-3fffffff : PCI MMCONFIG 0000 [bus 00-ff] 30000000-3fffffff : Reserved 80000000-91ffffff : PCI Bus 0000:03 80000000-8fffffff : 0000:03:00.0 90000000-91ffffff : 0000:03:00.0 91000000-912fffff : vesafb 92400000-928fffff : PCI Bus 0000:05 9e000000-9f0fffff : PCI Bus 0000:03 9e000000-9effffff : 0000:03:00.0 9e000000-9effffff : nvidia 9f080000-9f083fff : 0000:03:00.1 9f080000-9f083fff : ICH HD audio 9f100000-9f1fffff : PCI Bus 0000:08 9f100000-9f101fff : 0000:08:00.0 9f100000-9f101fff : xhci-hcd 9f200000-9f2fffff : PCI Bus 0000:07 9f200000-9f21ffff : 0000:07:00.0 9f200000-9f21ffff : e1000e 9f220000-9f223fff : 0000:07:00.0 9f220000-9f223fff : e1000e 9f300000-9f3fffff : PCI Bus 0000:05 9f400000-9f4fffff : PCI Bus 0000:02 9f400000-9f43ffff : 0000:02:00.0 9f440000-9f45ffff : 0000:02:00.0 9f460000-9f463fff : 0000:02:00.0 9f460000-9f463fff : megasas: LSI 9f500000-9f51ffff : 0000:00:19.0 9f500000-9f51ffff : e1000e 9f520000-9f523fff : 0000:00:1b.0 9f520000-9f523fff : ICH HD audio 9f525000-9f5250ff : 0000:00:1f.3 9f526000-9f5267ff : 0000:00:1f.2 9f526000-9f5267ff : ahci 9f527000-9f5273ff : 0000:00:1d.0 9f527000-9f5273ff : ehci_hcd 9f528000-9f5283ff : 0000:00:1a.0 9f528000-9f5283ff : ehci_hcd 9f529000-9f529fff : 0000:00:19.0 9f529000-9f529fff : e1000e 9f52c000-9f52c00f : 0000:00:16.0 9f52c000-9f52c00f : mei_me 9f52d000-9f52dfff : 0000:00:05.4 9fffe000-9fffefff : dmar1 a0000000-fbffffff : PCI Bus 0000:80 fbf00000-fbf00fff : 0000:80:05.4 fbffe000-fbffefff : dmar0 fc000000-fcffffff : pnp 00:00 fd000000-fdffffff : pnp 00:00 fe000000-feafffff : pnp 00:00 feb00000-febfffff : pnp 00:00 fec00000-fec003ff : IOAPIC 0 fec3f000-fec3f3ff : IOAPIC 1 fec7f000-fec7f3ff : IOAPIC 2 fed00000-fed003ff : HPET 0 fed00000-fed003ff : PNP0103:00 fed1f410-fed1f414 : iTCO_wdt.1.auto fed1f410-fed1f414 : iTCO_wdt.1.auto iTCO_wdt.1.auto fed20000-fed3ffff : Reserved fed50000-fed8ffff : Reserved fee00000-fee00fff : Local APIC ff000000-ffffffff : INT0800:00 ffa00000-ffa3ffff : Reserved 100000000-80cfffffff : System RAM 31c9600000-31ca402187 : Kernel code 31ca600000-31caef9fff : Kernel rodata 31cb000000-31cb35433f : Kernel data 31cba34000-31cbffffff : Kernel bss

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current cmdline: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.14.21-150400.24.63-default root=UUID=406791e3-4103-4da5-8235-aa35ed5be74c nosplash resume=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-36c81f660cfd00400232bc7c603abcd39-part4 splash=nosplash debug showopts elevator=cfq mitigations=auto nomodeset

what do I miss? only significant difference to other pc (despite of other hardware (but identical video card)) is, that that one uses efi not legacy boot.

This sounds like something between the system BIOS and NVIDIA BIOS.

maybe, the BIOS/POST Selftest of the system and SAS-RAID Controller show up, grub shows up, first lines of initrd are shown. On the other PC, same OS, kernel cmdline, same video card everything works as espected. thank you

On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 8:44 AM Paul Neuwirth <mail@paul-neuwirth.nl> wrote:

On Sunday 2023-05-14 08:56, Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users wrote:

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Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 08:56:34 From: Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users <users@lists.opensuse.org> Reply-To: Paul Neuwirth <mail@paul-neuwirth.nl> To: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> Cc: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: openSUSE 15.4 boots to a blank screen

On Saturday 2023-05-13 18:30, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:

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Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 18:30:44 From: Andrei Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com> To: users@lists.opensuse.org Subject: Re: openSUSE 15.4 boots to a blank screen

On 13.05.2023 08:49, Paul Neuwirth via openSUSE Users wrote:

...

Hello,

I Installed a new video card (same model is running on another computer using openSUSE Leap 15.4 with same proprietary drivers just fine). Since then the computer boots to a blank screen.

I got my consoles back using vga=792 in the cmdline (which seems to be deprecated).

Can you show dmesg ouptut for comparison?

But displaying anything is extremely slow (being scrolled). How do I get normal console behaviour (just displaying as fast as output is written) back? e.g. showing dmesg takes ages

Again - it is really something between your system BIOS and video card BIOS. Your video card has to emulate legacy VGA and something goes wrong here. Did you try nouveau with its framebuffer driver?