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dluki

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Registered: 2021-11-22

Posts: 4

Unresponsive Gnome login screen, GUI does not work (nouveau maybe?)

Hi,

When my laptop boots up, the Gnome login screen is displayed, but it is completely unresponsive.
I cannot:
- log in nor
- enter the password nor
- change the user to log in nor
- view the calendar nor
- view list of available WiFi networks ...
The graphical content of the Gnome login screen does not change at all, so GUI does not work at all.

The only two things I can do are:
- move the graphical mouse cursor (clicking in the mouse buttons does not cause anything) and
- switch to the text console using Ctrl-Alt-F2 (the text console works normally).

I use gdm/gnome with Wayland disabled.

Do you have any ideas how to fix that?
Thanks!

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Environment (OS and all packages fully updated):
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$ sudo lspci | grep -i -e nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216GLM [Quadro FX 880M] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GT216 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1)

$ sudo journalctl --priority=0..3 -b -0
Jan 31 10:55:19 devel kernel: nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: failed to create ce channel, -22

$ sudo dmesg | grep -i -e error -e failed
[    1.120210] RAS: Correctable Errors collector initialized.
[    4.381384] ACPI: \_SB_.PCI0.PEGP.DGFX: failed to evaluate _DSM
[    4.697688] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: drm: failed to create ce channel, -22
[   11.828894] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: failed to get i915 symbols, graphics turbo disabled until i915 loads
[   11.891275] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db failed with error -2
[   11.891287] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db
[   12.152773] iwlwifi 0000:44:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-6.ucode failed with error -2
[   12.152834] iwlwifi 0000:44:00.0: Direct firmware load for iwlwifi-6000-5.ucode failed with error -2
[ 1615.346676] xhci_hcd 0000:45:00.0: xHC error in resume, USBSTS 0x401, Reinit

$ sudo lsmod | grep nouveau
nouveau              3645440  0
drm_ttm_helper         16384  2 nouveau
ttm                   106496  2 drm_ttm_helper,nouveau
gpu_sched              65536  1 nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           20480  1 nouveau
drm_gpuvm              45056  1 nouveau
drm_exec               12288  2 drm_gpuvm,nouveau
mxm_wmi                12288  1 nouveau
drm_display_helper    270336  1 nouveau
video                  81920  1 nouveau
wmi                    28672  5 hp_wmi,video,wmi_bmof,mxm_wmi,nouveau

$ cat /etc/gdm/custom.conf
# GDM configuration storage
[daemon]
# Uncomment the line below to force the login screen to use Xorg
WaylandEnable=false

Last edited by dluki (2025-01-31 11:00:51)

xerxes_

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Registered: 2018-04-29

Posts: 882

Re: Unresponsive Gnome login screen, GUI does not work (nouveau maybe?)

You can disable gdm and setup .xinitrc and start Xorg server by startx. If you setup it well, that setup will be bulletproof and you will run X server rootless.