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mani.zaeim

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Registered: 2016-12-19

Posts: 25

[SOLVED] nouveau Issue

Hi,
I am using ArchLinux , KDE Plasma 5 on Lenovo Y510P with i7 and GeForce GT 755M, for almost 3 years without any issue, need to mention I do not use Nvidia on my linux (at least I expect arch do not use it as I didnot try to install any driver or configuration) as I do not need this shit, but would be happy If it can work just because of H/W acceleration and I have only one OS which is Arch (I do not use microsucks windows as dual boot), and I guess only intell graphic should be used by the OS, on Bios I use Legacy mode and do not use UEFI, And I turned off graphical card switching feature too, after last update on 25-10-2017, I faced to an issue

nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO write of 00000002 FAULT at 4188ac [ IBUS ]
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: Pointer to flat panel table invalid
nouveau 0000:01:00.0: DRM: Pointer to TMDS table invalid

after couple of rebooting, sometimes it boot properly, most of the times it fails and here is the Error by journalctl -r -p 3
after googleing and reading different solution such:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210719

I can use other tty after boot time but Plasma will not start,

sudo systemctl --failed 

shows 0 loaded units listed. (which I dont have any failed unit)
re-installing mesa , did not solved my problem. So i decide to remove xf86-video-nouveau, but it didnt help, I try to black list nouveau on /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf, it did not work as well, blacklisting in grub did not work too. so I install xf86-video-nouveau again, did not solve the problem.

And if I reboot my laptop most of the time kde(xorg) will not start some time it start! and thats very weird.

I do not have any configuration on:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/

reading:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/nouveau
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
did not helped too.

I can see this this Error too but I dont know is it related or not:

org.kde.pim.akonadicontrol: "D-Bus communication error 'org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply': 'Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security pol

Would be appreciated if anyone can help.

Thanks.

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Update:
Today(04-11-2017) the screen goes off; xorg crashed, showed the tty and same couple of line nouveau errors. after couple of rebooting SDDM start working again!

Last edited by mani.zaeim (2017-12-05 02:09:21)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 51,029

Re: [SOLVED] nouveau Issue

And if I reboot my laptop most of the time kde (sddm)

Take sddm out of the equation - there are tons of recent threads about it being broken.

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jhello

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Registered: 2012-08-10

Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED] nouveau Issue

Same problem with you.
No solution yet.
SDDM starts randomly.

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mani.zaeim

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Registered: 2016-12-19

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] nouveau Issue

This problem happend when I turned off my laptop by the power button due to not responding on the screen to turn on, during the installation of the qtwebkit package the laptop screen turned off due to no activity and the power setting, after pressing keys on keyboard it did not turn on so I shutdown it manually after that this problem apear. couple of days ago, I manage to update the qtwebkit package successfully, after that this problem solved. I have no idea of the relationship between qtwebkit and nouveau and what could be the reason!