Booting up to black screen - Log included

[linuxnutster at videotron.ca]

I googled about and saw something somebody else tried. I renamed 
nvidia-xorg.conf to xorg.conf and thus far this seems to have resolved 
the issue...


On 03/07/2015 07:23 PM, Martin Cigorraga wrote:
> Hello, it's a GPU modules issue, by all means; I experienced the very
> same the first time I booted into the live environment to install Fedora.
> You need to find a workaround, maybe by adding the needed parameters in
> your kernel boot line.
> Regards.
>
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:45 AM, <linuxnutster at videotron.ca
> <mailto:linuxnutster at videotron.ca>> wrote:
>
>     Greetings,
>
>     I previously posted that since a fedup to fedora 21, I
>     intermittently boot up to a blank screen. I'm using
>     akmod-nvidia-340xx, but reverting back to nouveau did not solve the
>     issue. One out of every 3 boot results in the problem. I pressed
>     ctrl+alt+F2 and logged in and attempted the startx command. The
>     resulting error message said to check xorg.1.log.
>
>     The nvidia console ( nvidia xserver settings ) clearly indicates my
>     screen type ( Ancor communications Asus VH196. Would the "no screens
>     found" be the possible source of my headache?
>
>     This is the error log from /var/log/Xorg.1.log:
>
>     [   359.396] (II) FBDEV: driver for framebuffer: fbdev
>     [   359.396] (II) VESA: driver for VESA chipsets: vesa
>     [   359.396] (++) using VT number 2
>
>     [   359.396] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for modesetting
>     [   359.396] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
>     [   359.396] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
>     [   359.396] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/__libfbdevhw.so
>     [   359.397] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>     [   359.397]    compiled for 1.16.3, module version = 0.0.2
>     [   359.397]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 18.0
>     [   359.397] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>     [   359.397] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for fbdev
>     [   359.397] (II) Loading sub module "fbdevhw"
>     [   359.397] (II) LoadModule: "fbdevhw"
>     [   359.397] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/__libfbdevhw.so
>     [   359.397] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
>     [   359.397]    compiled for 1.16.3, module version = 0.0.2
>     [   359.397]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 18.0
>     [   359.397] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>     [   359.397] vesa: Ignoring device with a bound kernel driver
>     [   359.397] (WW) Falling back to old probe method for vesa
>     [   359.397] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config
>     section.
>     [   359.397] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
>     [   359.397] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config
>     section.
>     [   359.397] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
>     [   359.397] (II) UnloadSubModule: "fbdevhw"
>     [   359.397] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config
>     section.
>     [   359.397] (II) UnloadModule: "vesa"
>     [   359.397] (EE) Device(s) detected, but none match those in the
>     config file.
>     [   359.397] (EE)
>     Fatal server error:
>     [   359.397] (EE) no screens found(EE)
>     [   359.397] (EE)
>     Please consult the Fedora Project support
>               at http://wiki.x.org
>       for help.
>     [   359.397] (EE) Please also check the log file at
>     "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" for additional information.
>     [   359.397] (EE)
>     [   359.398] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
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