Bug 1591125 - Dell Precision 5530 won't boot
Summary: Dell Precision 5530 won't boot
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xorg-x11-drv-nouveau
Version: 28
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ben Skeggs
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-06-14 06:43 UTC by Tore H. Larsen
Modified: 2018-09-11 09:07 UTC (History)
26 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2018-06-22 14:07:53 UTC
Type: Bug
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
nouveau fails DRM: pointer to TMDS table invalid (4.41 MB, image/jpeg)
2018-06-14 09:25 UTC, Tore H. Larsen
no flags Details
More of boot process until it fails and loops withBUG softlockup (3.37 MB, image/jpeg)
2018-06-14 09:27 UTC, Tore H. Larsen
no flags Details
soft lockup (5.42 MB, image/jpeg)
2018-06-14 09:30 UTC, Tore H. Larsen
no flags Details

Description Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-14 06:43:55 UTC
Description of problem: 

FC28 won't install on brand new Dell Precision 5530 w/nVidia Quadro P2000


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 

FC28 ISO 


How reproducible:

Solid

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Downloaded latest Live ISO, generated USB stick. Passes fs check.
2. Reboot and pushed F12 and boot FC28 USB stick
3.

Actual results:
Gfx doesn't start

Expected results:
Graphical interface starts

Additional info:
Will try various things.

Comment 1 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-14 07:26:42 UTC
Tried Mate version as well as stock FC28. Same issue.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Dell-Precision-2018-Ubuntu
Would rather use FC28.

Comment 2 Jiri Konecny 2018-06-14 07:30:53 UTC
Could you please provide us installation logs. You can find them /tmp/*.log as plain text logs. I
f you are unable to access stage2 installation environment please provide us sosreport or at least screenshot.

Thank you.

Comment 3 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-14 08:32:03 UTC
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS iso boots fine but doesn't see the disk. Maybe some bios setting is wrong. The system came with Win10 preinstalled but I primarily use FC28. I'll re-test FC28 1.1. Will also try CentOS 7.5 as RHEL 7.5 supposedly is supported.

Comment 4 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-14 09:25:04 UTC
Created attachment 1451267 [details]
nouveau fails DRM: pointer to TMDS table invalid

Please send me and email and I will send a bunch of pictures (~30MB).

Comment 5 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-14 09:27:40 UTC
Created attachment 1451268 [details]
More of boot process until it fails and loops withBUG softlockup

Comment 6 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-14 09:30:29 UTC
Created attachment 1451269 [details]
soft lockup

Comment 7 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-14 09:32:44 UTC
Need more?  Will try to get sosreport and logs if it times out and passes the softlock point and provide me with a prompt.

Comment 8 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-15 08:53:37 UTC
Is kernel option nvme_load=yes default on FC28?

Comment 9 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-15 09:46:23 UTC
Boots into gui with kernel options "nomodeset nvme_load=YES", but still unable to see M2 harddisk. SCSI option set to RAID. Want it rather than AHCI as it really takes advantage of NVMe disk.

Comment 10 Jiri Konecny 2018-06-18 09:07:19 UTC
Hmm, from the screenshot in comment 6 there is kworker hanging. Maybe a kernel issue? Could you kernel developer please take a look on this?

Comment 11 Jeremy Cline 2018-06-18 17:51:56 UTC
Hi Tore,

I'm going to assign it to the graphics component so they can take a look at this. In the mean time it'd be good to confirm you've got the latest firmware installed and whether or not the latest Rawhide image[0] works.

[0] https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Workstation/x86_64/iso/

Comment 12 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-19 07:11:25 UTC
Bios Version: 1.1.4 Release Date: 05/30/2018

I was struggling for days getting started using the new laptop I turned off Secure Boot this weekend.  I did follow https://docs-old.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/26/html/System_Administrators_Guide/sect-kernel-module-authentication.html   and    http://www.pellegrino.link/2015/11/29/signing-nvidia-proprietary-driver-on-fedora.html   (although sign-file is now binary, no need calling it with perl).

I'd like to hear from anyone who has tested secure boot bumblebee combo w/third party modules nvidia, vmware and vbox.

Comment 13 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-19 07:16:55 UTC
Found this useful as well: https://gist.github.com/Garoe/74a0040f50ae7987885a0bebe5eda1aa

Comment 14 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-22 07:31:10 UTC
For anyone using propr. nvidia driver with 5530, all that was needed in xorg.conf and Prime would probably have worked with secure boot if I had some patience. Might revisit and enable secure boot later.

Please close at your convenience.

# cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 396.26  (buildmeister@swio-display-x64-rhel04-19)  Mon Apr 30 18:40:19 PDT 2018

Section "Module"
#    Load "glx"
    Load "modesetting"
EndSection


Section "Device"
    Identifier     "nvidia"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Option         "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
EndSection

# lspci -v | egrep -i -e "VGA|nvidia"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 3e9b (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GLM [Quadro P2000 Mobile] (rev a1)

# lsmod | egrep -i -e "i915|nvidia"
nvidia_drm             45056  11
nvidia_modeset       1089536  6 nvidia_drm
nvidia              14045184  575 nvidia_modeset
ipmi_msghandler        57344  2 ipmi_devintf,nvidia
i915                 2048000  4
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 i915
drm_kms_helper        196608  2 nvidia_drm,i915
drm                   458752  13 drm_kms_helper,nvidia_drm,i915
video                  45056  3 dell_wmi,dell_laptop,i915

Comment 15 Tore H. Larsen 2018-06-22 07:34:07 UTC
Fyi, nouveau+i915 worked when secure boot was disabled and I reinstalled.

Comment 16 Jeremy Cline 2018-06-22 14:07:53 UTC
Glad you got it sorted out. For the record, we can't support the closed-source Nvidia drivers.

Comment 17 Reeve 2018-09-11 09:07:56 UTC
Hi, I have a Dell Mobile Precision 5530. But I'm still not able to install Ubuntu 16.04. Can someone share their installation method?

I tried uncheck secure boots, use Legancy boots and so on.

Thank you in advanced


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