When I installed fedora 21 alpha a while back, I was able to get my nvidia GTX 750 Ti to work fairly well with binary drivers from rpmfusion.
I've just re-installed 21 from the workstation live iso, and all I can get with a fresh install is the screen that says "Oh no something has gone wrong!".
So X is working well enough to display that screen, but it would be nice to know what has gone wrong (and, of course, I have no useful log files since systemd has hidden all info behind cryptic binary files now).
Any clues how to investigate this?
On 11 December 2014 at 15:44, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
When I installed fedora 21 alpha a while back, I was able to get my nvidia GTX 750 Ti to work fairly well with binary drivers from rpmfusion.
I've just re-installed 21 from the workstation live iso, and all I can get with a fresh install is the screen that says "Oh no something has gone wrong!".
So X is working well enough to display that screen, but it would be nice to know what has gone wrong (and, of course, I have no useful log files since systemd has hidden all info behind cryptic binary files now).
Any clues how to investigate this?
With X in F21 there's no /var/log/Xorg*log any more so to get the X log: journalctl -b -u gdm
(you probably already know this).
Nine times out of ten when I got that message while using the nvidia proprietary driver it turned out to be something wrong with the 3D acceleration failing due to the bundled libGL.so.* not being loaded by ldconfig for one reason or another. So check: journalctl -b | grep accel journalctl -b /usr/bin/gnome-session
right after you get the error message.
I hope that helps.
On 11.12.2014 16:01, Ahmad Samir wrote:
With X in F21 there's no /var/log/Xorg*log any more so to get the X log:
And what is this, mister journalctl?
$ grep kernel /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 14509.022] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 root=UUID=... initrd=/initramfs-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64.img [ 14509.030] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Page flipping synced to vblank by kernel.
$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
On 12/11/2014 10:31 AM, poma wrote:
On 11.12.2014 16:01, Ahmad Samir wrote:
With X in F21 there's no /var/log/Xorg*log any more so to get the X log:
And what is this, mister journalctl?
$ grep kernel /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 14509.022] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 root=UUID=... initrd=/initramfs-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64.img [ 14509.030] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Page flipping synced to vblank by kernel.
$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
excuse me?? [root@localhost log]# ls -l /var/log/Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77799 Dec 11 07:44 /var/log/Xorg.0.log [root@localhost log]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:35:40 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote:
excuse me?? [root@localhost log]# ls -l /var/log/Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77799 Dec 11 07:44 /var/log/Xorg.0.log [root@localhost log]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
Yep, but that only shows up *after* you actually have a working nvidia driver installed, prior to that using vesa with horrible resolution I got no Xorg.0.log (though I did get xorg junk in the journal).
Anyway, I've been investigating, and submitted this bug:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3451
Apparently the akmod-nvidia package I tried first didn't really build the driver. When I tried the pre-built kmod-nvidia, I at least get video of the proper resolution, but I appearently don't get 3D support.
On 12/11/2014 10:57 AM, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 10:35:40 -0500 Paul Cartwright wrote:
excuse me?? [root@localhost log]# ls -l /var/log/Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77799 Dec 11 07:44 /var/log/Xorg.0.log [root@localhost log]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
Yep, but that only shows up *after* you actually have a working nvidia driver installed, prior to that using vesa with horrible resolution I got no Xorg.0.log (though I did get xorg junk in the journal).
Anyway, I've been investigating, and submitted this bug:
https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3451
Apparently the akmod-nvidia package I tried first didn't really build the driver. When I tried the pre-built kmod-nvidia, I at least get video of the proper resolution, but I appearently don't get 3D support.
I had Nvidia cards in my earlier desktops running linux. got very frustrated with driver issues.. My latest desktop now has AMD Radeon card, running opensource driver.
On 11 December 2014 at 17:35, Paul Cartwright pbcartwright@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/11/2014 10:31 AM, poma wrote:
On 11.12.2014 16:01, Ahmad Samir wrote:
With X in F21 there's no /var/log/Xorg*log any more so to get the X log:
And what is this, mister journalctl?
$ grep kernel /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 14509.022] Kernel command line:
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 root=UUID=... initrd=/initramfs-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64.img
[ 14509.030] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Page flipping synced to vblank by kernel.
$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
excuse me?? [root@localhost log]# ls -l /var/log/Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77799 Dec 11 07:44 /var/log/Xorg.0.log [root@localhost log]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
I am using gdm with the intel driver, and I don't have an /var/log/Xorg.*.log; the X log is sent to the journal, maybe that's specific to gdm?
On 11 December 2014 at 18:43, Ahmad Samir ahmadsamir3891@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 December 2014 at 17:35, Paul Cartwright pbcartwright@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/11/2014 10:31 AM, poma wrote:
On 11.12.2014 16:01, Ahmad Samir wrote:
With X in F21 there's no /var/log/Xorg*log any more so to get the X
log:
And what is this, mister journalctl?
$ grep kernel /var/log/Xorg.0.log [ 14509.022] Kernel command line:
BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64 root=UUID=... initrd=/initramfs-3.17.4-301.fc21.x86_64.img
[ 14509.030] (==) NOUVEAU(0): Page flipping synced to vblank by kernel.
$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
excuse me?? [root@localhost log]# ls -l /var/log/Xorg.0.log -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 77799 Dec 11 07:44 /var/log/Xorg.0.log [root@localhost log]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
I am using gdm with the intel driver, and I don't have an /var/log/Xorg.*.log; the X log is sent to the journal, maybe that's specific to gdm?
It is specific to gdm: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gdm/commit/?id=ed7b9505a4f8ea90f0bf540b5ed8c24d...
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