[SOLVED] NVMe SSD disables Xorg or is not recognized

xfqt · 2023-02-11 22:43:58

Hello,

I just bought a new NVMe M.2 SSD (PCIE 3.0 x4) which I tried adding into my system. When booting, I noticed how lightdm would startup and finally figured Xorg wasn't starting either. At least the SSD was recognized within fdisk and lsblk. I then moved the SSD to another slot on my mainboard and voila - Xorg functioned as normal again. Only now the SSD is not showing up in neither linux nor the BIOS.

I am using an ASRock B450m Pro4. The slots I used are shown in this mainboard manual on page 7. https://download.asrock.com/Manual/B450M%20Pro4.pdf

My CPU is and AMD Ryzen 5 3600, the SSD in Question is a Crucial P3 2TB. According to the SSD's manufacturers webpage it should be compatible with my mainboard. My GPU is a Nvidia GTX 1070 which is in PCI2 in above shown link. The GPU is still shown in lscpi. I also have my display working, so I can fiddle about in TTY2.

I did reinstall xorg and xorg-server and made a system update while trying to get all of this going. I also reinstalled lightdm. None of that worked and after 3+ hours of troubleshooting I'm exhausted. There is only one other topic on the internet where one person can't use a third NVMe without problems, as they had to unplug another SATA Port which would share lanes. My mainboard specifically mentions this, so I did unplug SATA3_3 when I switched my SSD to M2_2, but as stated before it would not be recoginzed by the BIOS.

The full /var/log/Xorg.0.log: https://pastebin.com/NF7ehdUk
tl;dr:

[    15.927] (EE) No devices detected.
[    15.927] (EE) 
Fatal server error:
[    15.927] (EE) no screens found(EE) 
[    15.927] (EE) 
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support 
	 at http://wiki.x.org
 for help. 
[    15.927] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
[    15.927] (EE) 
[    15.929] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

Is my mainboard incapable of running both the gpu and the ssd? Is there something else blocking xorg from startig up? I do not understand what is going on.

Versions used:

xorg-server 21.1.7-1
lightdm 1:1.32.0-4
nvidia-dks 525.89.02-1
linux 6.1.11.arch1-1

Last edited by xfqt (2023-02-12 09:13:05)

Irets · 2023-02-11 23:21:49

[    15.922] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"

What happens if you try to start X without your config?

xfqt · 2023-02-12 08:06:01

Same thing pretty much. I removed the file and tried again, nothing changed.

seth · 2023-02-12 08:42:00

Post an updated xorg log, the configu you had was off by a mile (there's an nvidia GPU and you've an AMD CPU, but configured the system to use the intel driver)

xfqt · 2023-02-12 09:01:55

It's interesting that you noted that, since I was wondering about that. I'll uninstall xf86-video-intel now, but just for clarification: The system runs fine with the driver installed.

I just noted in vimdiff that the Platform probe changes. With the NVMe it is

Plattform probe for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/0000:07:00.0/drm/card0

, whereas it's

Platform probe for /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:03.1/0000:06:00.0/drm/card0

I will therefore try to change the GPUs bus ID in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia.conf. That could do the trick. Is that expected behaviour?

Here is the Xorg.0.log when I remove the NVMe for completeness' sake.
https://pastebin.com/W6JPfYVE

And again a tl;dr for the part at the end. Intel driver is still being loaded above, but that all works fine.

[    15.030] (II) Loading sub module "ramdac"
[    15.030] (II) LoadModule: "ramdac"
[    15.030] (II) Module "ramdac" already built-in
[    15.031] (**) NVIDIA(0): Depth 24, (--) framebuffer bpp 32
[    15.031] (==) NVIDIA(0): RGB weight 888
[    15.031] (==) NVIDIA(0): Default visual is TrueColor
[    15.031] (==) NVIDIA(0): Using gamma correction (1.0, 1.0, 1.0)
[    15.032] (II) Applying OutputClass "nvidia" options to /dev/dri/card0
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "Stereo" "0"
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-6"
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "SLI" "Off"
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MultiGPU" "Off"
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "BaseMosaic" "off"
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): Stereo disabled by request
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA SLI disabled.
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA Multi-GPU disabled.
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): Option "MetaModes" "DP-4: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}, HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}"
[    15.032] (**) NVIDIA(0): Enabling 2D acceleration
[    15.032] (II) Loading sub module "glxserver_nvidia"
[    15.032] (II) LoadModule: "glxserver_nvidia"
[    15.032] (II) Loading /usr/lib/nvidia/xorg/libglxserver_nvidia.so
[    15.082] (II) Module glxserver_nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation"
[    15.082] 	compiled for 1.6.99.901, module version = 1.0.0
[    15.082] 	Module class: X.Org Server Extension
[    15.082] (II) NVIDIA GLX Module  525.89.02  Wed Feb  1 23:13:01 UTC 2023
[    15.083] (II) NVIDIA: The X server supports PRIME Render Offload.
[    15.083] (--) NVIDIA(0): Valid display device(s) on GPU-0 at PCI:6:0:0

seth · 2023-02-12 09:10:27

That could do the trick. Is that expected behaviour?

Yes.
Why do you configure the bus ID anyway? There's just one GPU.

(for name in /{etc,usr/share}/X11/xorg.conf*; do echo $name; cat $name; echo; done) | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

Edit: whether the driver is installed is pretty irrelevant.
You're just slushing around a completely false configuration, relying on the server to fix that for you and that skews the log (making them look like the misconfiguration is the problem, not the altered/fixed PCI bus id)

Last edited by seth (2023-02-12 09:12:12)

xfqt · 2023-02-12 09:16:10

It did in fact do the trick.

I was following the installation guide for that I believe. Though I can't find the part of the article that states that anywhere. Even the minimal example on the wiki doesn't define a bus. Huh. I'll change it to the new Minimal example.

seth · 2023-02-12 09:43:48

I was gonna rant at you, but embarrassingly, there's https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … figuration
This is terrible advice. (Though the pointless intel addition is your work

If you post the configs you have, we'll go through them and curb the cruft.

Edit: though if this was an effort to mitigate tearing, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … en_tearing has a blue note on the quality of the nvidia-xconfig produced file

Last edited by seth (2023-02-12 10:08:07)

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[SOLVED] NVMe SSD disables Xorg or is not recognized

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