Wrong Screen Resolution after uninstalling nvidia packages from rpmfusion

[Ed Greshko]

On 10/01/14 06:36, jd1008 wrote:
>
> On 09/30/2014 04:19 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 10/01/14 06:14, jd1008 wrote:
>>> On 09/30/2014 04:04 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>>> Now the you have connectivity and have taken this to the list....  I should tell the list what has been found so far...
>>>>
>>>> As I said, I'm fairly certain you're having problems due to this in your Xorg.log
>>>>
>>>> [    29.862] (EE) [drm] KMS not enabled
>>>> [    29.862] (EE) open /dev/dri/card0: No such file or directory
>>>> [    29.862] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
>>>>
>>>> Looking down further you see it is falling back and using the VESA driver and not nouveau.
>>>>
>>>> [    29.863] (II) Module int10: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>>>> [    29.863]    compiled for 1.14.4, module version = 1.0.0
>>>> [    29.863]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 14.1
>>>> [    29.863] (II) VESA(0): initializing int10
>>>> [    29.864] (II) VESA(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
>>>> [    29.919] (II) VESA(0): VESA BIOS detected
>>>> [    29.919] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Version 3.0
>>>> [    29.919] (II) VESA(0): VESA VBE Total Mem: 14336 kB
>>>>
>>>> So, that is the problem....   That, I believe, is often caused by another driver being loaded and interfering in things.
>>>>
>>>> It can also be caused by having a parameter set in the boot line....but I see that is not the case as you have...
>>>>
>>>>    [    29.631] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.16.3-200.fc20.x86_64 root=UUID=691db345-e126-4dc7-8846-95545a9422f7 ro vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb quiet quiet splash acpi=off
>>>>
>>>> Sooo....
>>>>
>>>> What is the output of "lsmod"?
>>> $ lsmod
>>> Module                  Size  Used by
>>> fuse                   91446  2
>>> ip6table_filter        12815  0
>>> ip6_tables             26809  1 ip6table_filter
>>> ebtable_nat            12807  0
>>> ebtables               30758  1 ebtable_nat
>>   <snip>
>>
>> As you can see from the output of lsmod the "nouveau" is not being loaded.  We've established, off list, that there is no blacklist-nouveau.conf file in /usr/lib/modprobe.d either.  You've rebuilt your initramfs and still don't get nouveau.
>>
>> At the moment I can't think of what else would cause the issue.
>>
>>
> Which was my intent - I do not want the non-fedora and non-free nvidia packages from rpmfusion.
> But the screen is being treated as a 1280x768 which is strange, and it is not clear which
> "wrong" driver is being used instead of the original one when I upgraded to and booted fc20.
>

I know what your intent is....  "nouveau" is NOT non-fedora and non-free nvidia packages from rpmfusion.  It is the free and opensource nVidia driver.

That is the problem....  It isn't getting loaded and your system is falling back to using VESA.


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