xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is required with nouveau driver to display properly gnome apps [GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile]

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When I switch from nvidia to nouveau from software-properties-gtk and reboot, with the nouveau driver already running, I experience graphic glitches on gnome apps. This is due to "xserver-xorg-video-nouveau" missing.

See bugs here:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106657
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/426

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It should be installed somehow.

When I installed ubuntu I was running the discrete graphics card so nvidia proprietary drivers installed automatically. Then I wanted to switch to nouveau and that package is missing.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Does the problem occur only in Xorg sessions or Wayland too?

Please run 'apport-collect 1773651' to help us get more information about the machine.

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It happens with Gnome and Plasma, for gnome apps like synaptics, etc. I can't even login to Wayland, the screen goes black just after entering my user's password and clicking enter.

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What information do you need to know exactly? It's a nvidia gtx 10 series

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Please run 'apport-collect 1773651' to automatically send us information about the hardware and the software that is installed.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Reassigning to the modesetting driver. Because it sounds like the problem is in modesetting, and only fixed by switching to nouveau.

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Can't send the report:

apport-collect 1773651
Package xserver-xorg-video-modesetting not installed and no hook available, ignoring
Gtk-Message: 23:48:28.485: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

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nouveau: kernel rejected pushbuf: No such file or directory
nouveau: ch7: krec 0 pushes 0 bufs 1 relocs 0
nouveau: ch7: buf 00000000 00000003 00000004 00000004 00000000
Package xserver-xorg-video-modesetting not installed and no hook available, ignoring
Gtk-Message: 23:53:25.787: GtkDialog mapped without a transient parent. This is discouraged.

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The apport-collect is a mess and doesn't work, what do you need exactly?

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Just tell me what you need and stop messing around with buggy software.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

OK.

1. Please tell us the version of Ubuntu you are using.

2. Please attach a list of packages installed from running:
   dpkg -l > dpkg.txt

3. Please attach details of the graphics hardware and drivers by running:
   lspci -k > lspci-k.txt

And attach the resulting two text files.

P.S. The nouveau driver is known to be buggy. You may want to go back to the official Nvidia drivers instead.

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The issue does not happen anymore with the current configuration, even without having xserver-xorg-video-nouveau uninstalled. Maybe another package I've installed recently supplied the required files...

I'll keep using the proprietary nvidia it's years ahead.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks. Incomplete now, while you can't reproduce the issue.

I suspect this bug might be firmware related. So maybe that came from the nvidia driver, linux-firmware, or somewhere else.

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