From: Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>, 35408@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#35408: External monitor not working with GDM
Date: Wed, 8 May 2019 12:50:11 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <497de6f6-6491-283e-085a-34074f73fed3@sturm.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y33oubmb.fsf@gnu.org>
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On 03/05/19 01:20, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> skribis:
>
>>> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>>> Ben Sturmfels <ben@sturm.com.au> skribis:
>>
>>>>> [ 448.627] (II) RADEON: Driver for ATI/AMD Radeon chipsets:
>>
>>>> It looks like you have an AMD Radeon graphics card, is that right? Did
>>>> you pass “modprobe.blacklist=radeon” on the kernel command line, or
>>>> something similar?
>>>>
>>>> Apparently some of these AMD graphics cards are not quite supported by
>>>> free software, so that might be the issue here.
>>>
>>> Whoops, sorry I'm being unintentionally misleading - I shuttle my hard
>>> drive across from my X200 into an F2A85-M motherboard at work, which has
>>> Radeon HD 8470D. It's always just worked with Slim on Guix and Trisquel
>>> 7/8.
>>>
>>> I'll try the modprobe.blacklist though.
>>
>> I tried the modprobe.blacklist=radeon in the kernel line, but GDM still
>> did it's looping thing.
>
> What .desktop files to you have under /run/current-system/profile?
>
> There was a bug whereby GDM would enter an infinite loop when no
> .desktop files were provided: <https://issues.guix.info/issue/35068>.
The outcome if this is that I now have GDM working on my X200 + external
monitor, but not on the F2A85-M motherboard + external. For now I'm just
using Slim on the radeon-based system, so I suppose this can be closed.
I think this was two separate issues:
1. I think GDM stopped working on the X200 due to renumbered uid/gids
that caused permission problems on /var/lib/gdm. Not 100% sure - was a
day or two between when I removed /var/lib/gdm and reconfired and when I
tried the external monitor on X200 again.
2. Starting GDM on the F2A85-M gives the following in
/var/log/debug:
May 2 12:19:12 localhost vmunix: [ 24.301185] [drm] radeon: 768M of
VRAM memory ready
May 2 12:19:12 localhost vmunix: [ 24.301237] [drm] radeon: 1024M of
GTT memory ready.
May 2 12:19:12 localhost vmunix: [ 24.301287] [drm] Loading ARUBA
Microcode
May 2 12:19:12 localhost vmunix: [ 24.301325] 0000:00:01.0: Missing
Free firmware (non-Free firmware loading is disabled)
May 2 12:19:12 localhost vmunix: [ 24.304342] ni_cp: Failed to load
firmware "/*(DEBLOBBED)*/"
May 2 12:19:12 localhost vmunix: [ 24.304420] [drm:cayman_init
[radeon]] *ERROR* Failed to load firmware!
May 2 12:19:12 localhost vmunix: [ 24.304467] radeon 0000:00:01.0:
Fatal error during GPU init
May 2 12:19:12 localhost vmunix: [ 24.304499] [drm] radeon: finishing
device.
And the following in Xorg.0.log:
[ 642.963] (II) Module fbdevhw: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
[ 642.963] compiled for 1.20.4, module version = 0.0.2
[ 642.963] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
[ 642.963] (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
[ 642.963] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 642.963] (II) UnloadModule: "radeon"
[ 642.963] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 642.963] (II) UnloadModule: "modesetting"
[ 642.963] (EE) Screen 0 deleted because of no matching config section.
[ 642.963] (II) UnloadModule: "fbdev"
[ 642.963] (II) UnloadSubModule: "fbdevhw"
Regarding the .desktop issue - I wasn't quite clear on where these files
are supposed to be. I don't seem to have a /run/current-system/profile.
I suppose it doesn't matter now since I've since done a `pull` and
`system reconfigure`.
Thanks!
Ben
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-08 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-24 4:25 bug#35408: External monitor not working with GDM Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-25 9:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 11:41 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-25 12:16 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-04-25 12:53 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-25 16:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-26 1:12 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-26 8:12 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-04-25 22:13 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2019-04-26 0:42 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-04-26 8:14 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-02 2:00 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-05-02 8:01 ` Ben Sturmfels
2019-05-02 15:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-05-08 2:50 ` Ben Sturmfels [this message]
2020-06-11 4:01 ` Royce Strange
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