Bug 1013208

Summary: X fails with Nvidia GeForce GT 750M
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Fred New <fred.new2911>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Last Closed: 2013-10-02 01:11:47 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Fred New 2013-09-28 10:41:07 UTC
Created attachment 804375 [details]
Xorg.0.log

Description of problem:
I (can't) get no graphical satisfaction on my new HP Envy 17 laptop with an Nvidia GeForce GT 750M. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.9-1.fc19.x86_64
kernel-3.11.1-200.fc19.x86_64

How reproducible:
I only tried installing Fedora 19 once, but the system consistently reboots without graphics.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install F19 (to dual boot with Windows 8).
2. Boot.

Actual results:
The plymouth graphical screen appears and then goes away as expected, leaving a list of boot messages when I would expect a graphical login prompt. Virtual consoles are available.

Expected results:


Additional info:
# lspci | egrep -i 'vga|nvidia'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 750M] (rev a1)

# lsmod | egrep -i 'nouveau|i915'
nouveau               943445  0 
i915                  651861  2 
mxm_wmi                12865  1 nouveau
ttm                    79865  1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           13257  2 i915,nouveau
drm_kms_helper         50239  2 i915,nouveau
drm                   274480  4 ttm,i915,drm_kms_helper,nouveau
i2c_core               34242  7 drm,i915,i2c_i801,drm_kms_helper,i2c_algo_bit,nouveau,videodev
video                  19104  2 i915,nouveau
wmi                    18697  3 hp_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau

Comment 1 Ben Skeggs 2013-10-02 01:11:47 UTC
You have nomodeset in your kernel boot options...

Comment 2 Fred New 2013-10-03 17:24:51 UTC
Could I reopen this? Anaconda must have determined that nomodeset was necessary and, in fact, if I remove nomodeset from the boot parameters, the plymouth screen doesn't appear nor do my virtual consoles. All I get is a brief flash of garbled colors when GRUB turns control over to the kernel. The system boots normally, and SSH and <Ctrl><Alt><Del> work fine even though I can't see anything.

Comment 3 Fred New 2013-10-03 17:26:25 UTC
Created attachment 807190 [details]
Xorg.0.log after nomodeset has been removed from the boot parameters