Bug 11477

Summary:	nvidia hybrid laptop configuration failure
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Tony Blackwell <tablackwell>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	CC:	doktor5000, res1st
Version:	4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12655
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	lspcidrake -v

Description Tony Blackwell 2013-10-15 21:42:12 CEST

Description of problem:

hardware:
ASUS laptop- R552J with Nvidia GT 750M graphics plus the integrated Intel video chipset

Problem:
I can't get the nvidia chipset working despite M4 having the latest nvidia (319.60) driver available. MCC correctly reports the GT750M chipset.( a number of earlier nvidia drivers also supported this chipset). 

It's not apparent from the offered nvidia drivers withing M4 as to which one should be used.  M4 defaults to using the nvidia geforce 400 series and later driver.  Any combinations of nvidia drivers, resolutions and screens result in fatal server errors.

I can get by with the intergrated Intel chipset, but bought this new laptop for its nvidia chipset due to higher graphics performance and perceived better linux support...

1. We need a fix so nvidia can be used, given that the proprietary chipset apparently supports it.

2. My impression is that MCC does not handle dual video heads as clearly as it might.  Would it be better bringing up a dialog regarding the dual chipset as to the available choice?


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Comment 1 Ingo S 2014-01-20 15:43:43 CET

same here, acer aspire v5 573G

CC: (none) => res1st

Comment 2 Manuel Hiebel 2014-01-20 22:03:50 CET

(In reply to Ingo S from comment #1)
> same here, acer aspire v5 573G

with what for media ?

Comment 3 Tony Blackwell 2014-01-21 02:45:36 CET

Sorry!  Classical DVD, x86_64.  I'll retry with today's pre-release when sync'd

Comment 4 Tony Blackwell 2014-02-01 09:28:49 CET

So, the release is announced at least on qa, but I now don't have _any_ graphics screen for M4 final round 6 and could use some suggestions.

ASUSTek N550JV laptop, Intel Core i7 4700HQ with Intel 4600 graphics. Also Nvidia Geforce GT750M graphics, 4Gb VRAM.

Current status: UEFI install successful, boots to emergency prompt only.

Running XFdrake has not given me any successful combinations. Graphics card selection defaults to 'Intel 810 and later'. Previously on M4beta2 I had a graphics screen running with Intel810, monitor selected as flat panel 1920x1080, resolution 1920x1080 16bpp and this ran successfully until a software update only days ago, no success since. I've now wiped the partition and reinstalled with final round 6, stuck at # prompt.

Curiously if I call startx, I do get a KDE session up for root, but can't do much with it. If I try mcc from a terminal window in this startx KDE session, I get "Error getting authority: Error initializing authority: Could not connect: No such file or directory" Starting XFdrake from here will spawn the graphical card config, but no more luck.

I did try adding boot arguments to drakboot.conf in /boot/grub2:
boot=/dev/sda rd.blacklist=nouveau xdriver=intel
Is my syntax correct? It didn't help

Looking at journalctl -xb, I see the following highlighted in red:

nouveau 0000:01:00.0; Invalid ROM contents
nouveau E[ DRM] Pointer to TMDS table invalid
nouveau E[ DRM] Pointer to flat panel table invalid

Not sure how relevant this is if I'm not using nouveau, but it can't help

For good measure, the startx-spawned KDE session exhibits the screen flashing/oscillation to and fro laterally which is probably that of:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12230 This also only appeared earlier in the week.

Not happy. I've been using the laptop for work since M4 beta2 came out, no problems until 2-3/7 ago (risky, but nothing else would boot on my UEFI).

Ideas?
Tonyb

Version: Cauldron => 4

Comment 5 Tony Blackwell 2014-02-08 11:20:09 CET

Created attachment 4962 [details]
lspcidrake -v

Florian Hubold 2014-02-16 14:58:15 CET

CC: (none) => doktor5000
See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12655

Comment 6 Tony Blackwell 2014-03-15 20:20:12 CET

Hybrid-graphics laptop support improved in M4 version 2 so closing this for now.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED