Bug 1463226

Summary: no screen boot cause nouveau failures
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Tomas Pelka <tpelka>
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveauAssignee: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 7.4   
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Description Tomas Pelka 2017-06-20 12:10:22 UTC 
Description of problem:
attaching display (HDMI) causing nouveau failures

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-3.10.0-680.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.19.3-7.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.13-2.el7.x86_64

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot screen less
2. attach monitor
3.

Actual results:
# dmesg | grep nouveau
[    1.818486] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: NVIDIA GM204 (124020a1)
[    1.818555] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: irq 28 for MSI/MSI-X
[    1.901364] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bios: version 84.04.36.00.20
[    1.901735] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: disp: dcb 15 type 8 unknown
[    1.902552] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb: 4096 MiB GDDR5
[    1.902567] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of 80000167 FAULT at 10eb14 [ IBUS ]
[    1.908564] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: VRAM: 4096 MiB
[    1.908567] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: GART: 1048576 MiB
[    1.908570] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: TMDS table version 2.0
[    1.908573] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB version 4.1
[    1.908576] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 00: 01000f02 00020030
[    1.908579] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 01: 02000f00 00000000
[    1.908582] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 02: 04011f82 00020030
[    1.908585] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 03: 02022f62 00020010
[    1.908587] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 04: 02833f76 04400020
[    1.908590] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 05: 02033f72 00020020
[    1.908593] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB outp 15: 01df5ff8 00000000
[    1.908595] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 00: 00001030
[    1.908598] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 01: 01000131
[    1.908600] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 02: 00010261
[    1.908602] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 03: 00020346
[    1.908605] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: DCB conn 05: 00000570
[    1.908607] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: Pointer to flat panel table invalid
[    1.931535] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: unknown connector type 70
[    1.931588] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: failed to create encoder 1/8/0: -19
[    1.931591] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: Unknown-1 has no encoders, removing
[    1.999673] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: MM: using COPY for buffer copies
[    2.046388] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: priv: GPC0: 419df4 00000000 (1a40820e)
[    2.046463] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: priv: GPC1: 419df4 00000000 (1a40820e)
[    2.046525] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: priv: GPC2: 419df4 00000000 (1a40820e)
[    2.046586] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: priv: GPC3: 419df4 00000000 (1a40820e)
[    2.150287] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: allocated 1024x768 fb: 0x60000, bo ffff88053fec4c00
[    2.151107] fbcon: nouveaufb (fb0) is primary device
[    2.244672] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: fb0: nouveaufb frame buffer device
[    2.249040] [drm] Initialized nouveau 1.3.1 20120801 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 0

screen stays black


Expected results:
no failures, screen should display gdm

Additional info:
Comment 1 Tomas Pelka 2017-06-20 12:20:50 UTC 
Created attachment 1289630 [details]
xorg log
Comment 2 Tomas Pelka 2017-06-20 12:21:21 UTC 
Created attachment 1289631 [details]
messages
Comment 3 Tomas Pelka 2017-08-03 08:13:11 UTC 
Tomas would you please check on you machine with updated BIOS.

Thanks
-Tom
Comment 4 Tomas Hudziec 2017-08-09 15:48:19 UTC 
On machine with updated BIOS there is black screen on outputs except DVI-I-1, where are messages
[    1.898281] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 022554 [ IBUS ]
[    1.904395] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: Pointer to flat panel table invalid
[    2.041391] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: priv: GPC0: 419df4 00000000 (1940820e)
[    2.041467] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: priv: GPC1: 419df4 00000000 (1940820e)
[    2.041529] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: priv: GPC2: 419df4 00000000 (1940820e)
[    2.041590] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: priv: GPC3: 419df4 00000000 (1940820e)
and blinking cursor (outputs tried one by one).

After telinit 3 && telinit 5 signal is back on monitors.

kernel-3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-drv-nouveau-1.0.13-3.el7.x86_64
xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.19.3-11.el7.x86_64
Comment 5 Tomas Hudziec 2017-08-09 15:49:08 UTC 
Created attachment 1311298 [details]
dmesg on machine with updated bios
Comment 6 Tomas Hudziec 2017-08-09 15:49:54 UTC 
Created attachment 1311299 [details]
xorg log on machine with updated bios
Comment 8 RHEL Program Management 2021-01-15 07:38:33 UTC 
After evaluating this issue, there are no plans to address it further or fix it in an upcoming release.  Therefore, it is being closed.  If plans change such that this issue will be fixed in an upcoming release, then the bug can be reopened.