nvidia proprietary driver does not output to HDMI screens

[Wolf Rogner]

When attaching an external screen to my Macbook Pro 15" Retina the external screen stays blank.
nvidia-settings report the screen correctly.

There are three options to attach a screen:

- HDMI directly
- via Thunderbold port 1 and 2

I use a Moshi adapter.

Cable and adapter used to work properly, HDMI direct worked till 16.04.

Using Nouveau driver the external screen works fine (except for
overlapping screens) from TB port 2 and HDMI port.

TB port 1 works fine with VGA.

Thus I presume there is an error in the nvidia 367 driver
(I haven't tried the latest update 375.20 from NVidias site yet)

I have reported this error under #1650891 (nvidia-367 driver)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: xorg 1:7.7+13ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-30.32-generic 4.8.6
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-30-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_uvm wl nvidia_drm nvidia_modeset nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0000.01.00.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0000:01:00.0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 367.57 Mon Oct 3 20:37:01 PDT 2016
 GCC version: gcc version 6.2.0 20161005 (Ubuntu 6.2.0-5ubuntu12)
.tmp.unity_support_test.0:

ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8.2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog:

CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
CompositorRunning: compiz
CompositorUnredirectDriverBlacklist: '(nouveau|Intel).*Mesa 8.0'
CompositorUnredirectFSW: true
Date: Sun Dec 18 15:09:07 2016
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: yakkety
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, if not too technical
GraphicsCard:
 Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0166] (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Apple Inc. 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [106b:00f7]
 NVIDIA Corporation GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] [10de:0fd5] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: Apple Inc. GK107M [GeForce GT 650M Mac Edition] [106b:00f2]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-22 (57 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
MachineType: Apple Inc. MacBookPro10,1
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.8.0-30-generic.efi.signed root=UUID=9a60a19c-458f-4dca-8617-f7c6cacf9658 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: xorg
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/21/2012
dmi.bios.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.bios.version: MBP101.88Z.00EE.B03.1212211437
dmi.board.asset.tag: Base Board Asset Tag#
dmi.board.name: Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F
dmi.board.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.board.version: MacBookPro10,1
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Apple Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: Mac-C3EC7CD22292981F
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAppleInc.:bvrMBP101.88Z.00EE.B03.1212211437:bd12/21/2012:svnAppleInc.:pnMacBookPro10,1:pvr1.0:rvnAppleInc.:rnMac-C3EC7CD22292981F:rvrMacBookPro10,1:cvnAppleInc.:ct10:cvrMac-C3EC7CD22292981F:
dmi.product.name: MacBookPro10,1
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: Apple Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.13.0+16.10.20160818.2-0ubuntu2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.70-1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 12.0.3-1ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 12.0.3-1ubuntu2
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers-* N/A
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.10.2-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.7.1-1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20160706-1ubuntu1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.12-2
xserver.bootTime: Sun Dec 18 14:22:56 2016
xserver.configfile: /etc/X11/xorg.conf
xserver.errors:

xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log
xserver.outputs:

xserver.version: 2:1.18.4-1ubuntu6.1

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks for the bug reports.

I think nvidia-367 is where this should be logged. Although even when bugs do affect multiple packages, you should maintain a single bug report and just add those multiple packages to its task list (up the top).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.