Bug 2224326 - No Text mode Virtul Terminal / boot messages on NVIDIA card if vfio-pci loaded
Summary: No Text mode Virtul Terminal / boot messages on NVIDIA card if vfio-pci loaded
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 37
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-07-20 12:25 UTC by maverick.pt
Modified: 2024-01-15 12:19 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2024-01-15 12:19:27 UTC
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Description maverick.pt 2023-07-20 12:25:09 UTC
Hi,

After installing Fedora 37 on my new PC and setting up my secondary GPU to be used on a KVM W10 VM (vfio) i realized that i don't have text mode virtual consoles anymore and also on boot i don't see the boot messages on my NVIDIA GPU.

Then i realized that the text mode virtual consoles and boot messages where going to the onboard GPU, so i disabled it with the kernel parameter pci-stub.ids=1a03:2000. After that no more boot messages or virtual console on any GPU.

Finally i realized that what was causing the lack of text mode virtual consoles and no boot messages was the vfio-pci module.

As soon as i removed vfio-pci from dracut, was no longer loaded at boot and i could see the boot messages on my NVIDIA GPU and text mode virtual consoles are also working on NVIDIA GPU.

After booting, if i manually load vfio-pci i loose immediately the text mode virtual consoles.


MY ENVIRONMENT:

OS: Fedora 37 (6.3.12-100.fc37.x86_64)
MB: Supermicro H12SSL-i
CPU: AMD EPYC 7313P
GPU0: ASPEED Technology, Inc. ASPEED Graphics Family [1a03:2000] (onboard)
GPU1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070
GPU2: MSI Radeon RX 6700 XT MECH 2X 12G (only used in KVM W10 VM / vfio-pci)

NVIDIA drivers i use are the ones from negativo17 repo:
nvidia-kmod-common-535.54.03-1.fc37.noarch
nvidia-libXNVCtrl-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64
nvidia-driver-libs-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64
nvidia-driver-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64
nvidia-driver-cuda-libs-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64
nvidia-driver-NVML-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64
nvidia-persistenced-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64
nvidia-driver-cuda-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64
nvidia-settings-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64
nvidia-vaapi-driver-0.0.10-1.fc37.x86_64
nvidia-gpu-firmware-20230625-151.fc37.noarch
akmod-nvidia-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64
kmod-nvidia-6.3.12-100.fc37.x86_64-535.54.03-1.fc37.x86_64



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.load vfio-pci module
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Comment 1 maverick.pt 2023-11-03 15:35:41 UTC
Seems to be fixed with kernel-6.5.8-100.fc37.x86_64

Comment 2 Aoife Moloney 2023-11-23 01:48:00 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora Linux 37 is nearing its end of life.
Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora Linux 37 on 2023-12-05.
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Comment 3 Aoife Moloney 2024-01-15 12:19:27 UTC
Fedora Linux 37 entered end-of-life (EOL) status on 2023-12-05.

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