[SOLVED] black vts with nvidia gtx 650 ti boost and propietary drivers

Nareto · 2013-12-05 18:14:36

Hello, I just bought a gtx 650 ti boost and installed the nvidia package from official repositories (uninstalling the intel stuff, since before I used my integrated intel GPU). It seems to work except for the virtual terminals, which are not displayed at all (black screen); since I don't use a login manager, right now I have to blindly login and run xinit.

At first, without touching any configuration file, I got this in journalctl -b:

Dec 05 18:33:16 triad kernel: nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
Dec 05 18:33:16 triad kernel: Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
Dec 05 18:33:16 triad kernel: vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:01:00.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
Dec 05 18:33:16 triad kernel: [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 20130102 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
Dec 05 18:33:16 triad kernel: NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  331.20  Wed Oct 30 17:43:35 PDT 2013
...
Dec 05 18:34:29 triad kernel: NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console
Dec 05 18:34:29 triad kernel: NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver
Dec 05 18:34:29 triad kernel: NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console
Dec 05 18:34:29 triad kernel: NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in
Dec 05 18:34:29 triad kernel: NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.

Following advice which seemed reasonable on a similar thread in the forum, I tried fiddling with kernel options. First I setted GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080x24 in /etc/default/grub (which is a mode I think my screen should handle, since I get this:

# hwinfo --framebuffer
02: None 00.0: 11001 VESA Framebuffer                           
  [Created at bios.459]
  Unique ID: rdCR.hwRM9Z5P_O7
  Hardware Class: framebuffer
  Model: "NVIDIA GK106 Board - 20300012"
  Vendor: "NVIDIA Corporation"
  Device: "GK106 Board - 20300012"
  SubVendor: "NVIDIA"
  SubDevice: 
  Revision: "Chip Rev"
  Memory Size: 14 MB
  Memory Range: 0xd9000000-0xd9dfffff (rw)
  Mode 0x0300: 640x400 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0301: 640x480 (+640), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0303: 800x600 (+800), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0305: 1024x768 (+1024), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0307: 1280x1024 (+1280), 8 bits
  Mode 0x030e: 320x200 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x030f: 320x200 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0311: 640x480 (+1280), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0312: 640x480 (+2560), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0314: 800x600 (+1600), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0315: 800x600 (+3200), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0317: 1024x768 (+2048), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0318: 1024x768 (+4096), 24 bits
  Mode 0x031a: 1280x1024 (+2560), 16 bits
  Mode 0x031b: 1280x1024 (+5120), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0330: 320x200 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0331: 320x400 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0332: 320x400 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0333: 320x400 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0334: 320x240 (+320), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0335: 320x240 (+640), 16 bits
  Mode 0x0336: 320x240 (+1280), 24 bits
  Mode 0x033d: 640x400 (+1280), 16 bits
  Mode 0x033e: 640x400 (+2560), 24 bits
  Mode 0x034b: 1920x1080 (+1920), 8 bits
  Mode 0x034c: 1920x1080 (+3840), 16 bits
  Mode 0x034d: 1920x1080 (+7680), 24 bits
  Mode 0x0360: 1280x800 (+1280), 8 bits
  Mode 0x0361: 1280x800 (+5120), 24 bits
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

)

I still got black vts, had to blindly login, and still same warnings in journalctl. So I reset GRUB_GFX_MODE=auto and instead added "vga=normal" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT. Still same problem, but now in journalctl I did *not* get the second part (NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console) but only the first part in the log above, before the points.

Of course I ran "grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg" after every change to /etc/default/grub.

So, any insight? any more info I can provide? Here's lspci:

# lspci  -v |grep -i -A 17 vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK106 [GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 356d
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 50
	Memory at fa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
	Memory at d8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
	[virtual] Expansion ROM at fb000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
	Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
	Capabilities: [78] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [b4] Vendor Specific Information: Len=14 <?>
	Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
	Capabilities: [128] Power Budgeting <?>
	Capabilities: [600] Vendor Specific Information: ID=0001 Rev=1 Len=024 <?>
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia

Last edited by Nareto (2013-12-06 19:40:38)

andy123 · 2013-12-05 19:44:45

Maybe your intel gpu is still your primary vga device. There should be a bios/uefi setting to change this.

Nareto · 2013-12-05 20:52:43

mmh, I do see the bios and grub screen correctly though - after I select the default entry in grub it turns black... anyway I'll have a look at it when I reboot

Nareto · 2013-12-06 19:40:20

well turns out it was indeed something in the BIOS, I set "IGD multi monitor" (or similar) to Disabled, and now I see terminals - with a terrible 600x800, but still way better than nothing. thanks andy123

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#1 2013-12-05 18:14:36

[SOLVED] black vts with nvidia gtx 650 ti boost and propietary drivers

#2 2013-12-05 19:44:45

Re: [SOLVED] black vts with nvidia gtx 650 ti boost and propietary drivers

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Re: [SOLVED] black vts with nvidia gtx 650 ti boost and propietary drivers

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