Bug 1957655

Summary: Xorg unknown chipset: NV164
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Peter Kopec <pekopec>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Version: 8.5CC: ajax, ndegraef, tpelka
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Description Peter Kopec 2021-05-06 09:00:21 UTC
Description of problem:
Unable to create X session with turing GPU, tested with TU104 and TU117, when using /etc/X11/xorg.conf . conf file was automatically generated and driver for GPU is nouveau. When driver for GPU is set to modesetting or there is no xorg.conf X session will be created and gpu is fully functional. 

Can be also reproduced on RHEL 8.4 


How reproducible: 100%


Steps to Reproduce:
1. have turing GPU
2. create xorg.conf
3. try to log into X session from gdm

Actual results:
you will be returned into GDM

Expected results:
you will get X session

Additional info:
(II) LoadModule: "nouveau"
(II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/nouveau_drv.so
(II) Module nouveau: vendor="X.Org Foundation"
         compiled for 1.20.1, module version = 1.0.15
         Module class: X.Org Video Driver
         ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 24.0
 (II) NOUVEAU driver
(II) NOUVEAU driver for NVIDIA chipset families :
        RIVA TNT        (NV04)         RIVA TNT2       (NV05)
        GeForce 256     (NV10)
        GeForce 2       (NV11, NV15)
        GeForce 4MX     (NV17, NV18)
        GeForce 3       (NV20)
        GeForce 4Ti     (NV25, NV28)
        GeForce FX      (NV3x)
        GeForce 6       (NV4x)
        GeForce 7       (G7x)
        GeForce 8       (G8x)
        GeForce GTX 200 (NVA0)
        GeForce GTX 400 (NVC0)
 (II) [drm] nouveau interface version: 1.3.1
 (EE) Unknown chipset: NV167

Comment 1 Tomas Pelka 2021-05-06 09:15:14 UTC
Note that this sees like quite strange bug, Turing should be supported since 8.3 I believe.

Comment 2 Peter Kopec 2021-05-06 12:08:43 UTC
More info about GPUS:
NVIDIA Corporation TU104GL [Quadro RTX 5000] [10de:1eb0] (rev a1)
NVIDIA Corporation TU117 [GeForce GTX 1650] [10de:1f82] (rev a1)

Comment 3 Adam Jackson 2021-05-06 13:16:15 UTC
> conf file was automatically generated and driver for GPU is nouveau.

What automatically generated it? We use the generic modesetting X driver by default for Tesla and newer for NVIDIA, which is like GeForce 8000 and six generations older than Turing, so it's not especially surprising that the nouveau X driver wouldn't work.

Comment 4 Peter Kopec 2021-05-06 13:55:56 UTC
xong.conf was generated by Xorg -configure. For this pascal gpu ( GP108 [GeForce GT 1030] ) what is predecessor of turing it works just fine with nouveau inside xorg.conf

Comment 5 Adam Jackson 2021-05-06 16:57:16 UTC
The nouveau (x.org) driver does not in fact support Turing or newer, you have to use the generic driver named 'modesetting'. We should probably fix X -configure to not configure nouveau at all to be honest.

Comment 6 Adam Jackson 2021-05-06 17:07:51 UTC
This is an xserver bug if it's anything, nouveau upstream doesn't support Turing or Ampere and we're not likely to use its support even if it did.

Comment 9 RHEL Program Management 2022-11-06 07:27:40 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.

Comment 10 Red Hat Bugzilla 2023-09-18 00:26:27 UTC
The needinfo request[s] on this closed bug have been removed as they have been unresolved for 120 days