NVidia Tesla trouble in both F38 & F39
3 different Tesla cards involved so far: GT210 (not mine) plus G98 and GT218 mine.
Without the workaround, screen locks in black except for a few random portions of
80x25 mode characters in upper left.
Bad kernels include 6.4.16, 6.5.9 & 6.5.10. OK without workaround: 6.3.12. Which
kernels work OK without workaround seem to vary with which NVidia/PC combination.
These are slow booting oldsters with no more than 2 CPU threads (here at least).
Worse, the G98 is a PCI card, not PCIe. :(
<https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-desktop-74/kernel-6-5-9-gt...
has the original details.
Known workaround so far here is to include vga=791 on kernel cmdline.
Not yet tried on Fermis, and not yet tried forced inclusion of nouveau.ko in initrd.
From one of 3 PCs involved:
# inxi -GSaz --vs --zl --hostname
inxi 3.3.31-00 (2023-11-02)
System:
Host: g5eas Kernel: 6.5.10-300.fc39.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
compiler: gcc v: 2.40-13.fc39 clocksource: tsc available: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: ro root=LABEL=<filter> noresume selinux=0 audit=0
ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 plymouth.enable=0 consoleblank=0
mitigations=off vga=791
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.9 tk: Qt v: 5.15.11 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7 dm:
1: KDM 2: XDM Distro: Fedora release 39 (Thirty Nine)
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] vendor: PNY driver: nouveau
v: kernel non-free: series: 340.xx status: legacy (EOL~2019-12-xx) last:
release: 340.108 kernel: 5.4 xorg: 1.20 arch: Tesla process: 40-80nm
built: 2006-2013 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 link-max: lanes: 16
ports: active: DVI-I-1,VGA-1 empty: none bus-ID: 0b:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:06e4 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.2
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3600x1200 s-dpi: 120 s-size: 762x254mm (30.00x10.00")
s-diag: 803mm (31.62")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: primary,left model: NEC EA243WM serial: <filter>
built: 2011 res: 1920x1200 hz: 60 dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2
size: 519x324mm (20.43x12.76") diag: 612mm (24.1") ratio: 16:10 modes:
max: 1920x1200 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: VGA-1 pos: right model: Dell P2213 serial: <filter> built: 2012
res: 1680x1050 hz: 60 dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2 size: 473x296mm (18.62x11.65")
diag: 558mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau platforms: device: 0 egl: 1.4
drv: nouveau device: 1 drv: swrast surfaceless: egl: 1.4 drv: nouveau x11:
egl: 1.4 drv: nouveau inactive: gbm,wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 23.2.1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NV98 device-ID: 10de:06e4 memory: 483.4 MiB
unified: no
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